单词 | gustard |
释义 | † gustard Sc. Obs. Also 7 pl. gusestards. [Etymologizing alteration of ostarde or bustard, by substitution of goose for the first syllable.] A bustard.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xlii, Beside thir thre uncouth kind of fowlis, is ane uthir kind of fowlis in the Mers, mair uncouth, namit gustardis; als mekle as ane swan. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 39 Ane foul..quhilke the Gustarde commonlie thay cal. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 174 Bistards or Bustards, so called for their slow Pace and heavy flying; or as the Scots term them Gusestards; that is to say, Slow Geese. |

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