Meanings of auk in anglès

Want great auk! I searched the web for animals he craved.

I'd sell auk eggs, and make my fortune, and yourn too.'

You know I have made some dodos and a great auk?

He sold his great auk chicks at a significant profit.

The extinction of the Labrador duck and the great auk have often been deplored.

Oolichuk continued this process until the first auk was finished.

The great auk and the Labrador duck have both become utterly extinct within living memory.

Then, sir, I'd go into the great auk business.

We must be careful lest, like the dodo and the great auk, the breed becomes extinct.

Well, sir, I'm goin' to sell them auk eggs for sixteen hundred dollars, two for three thousand.'

And the great auk's eggs too!

If we modern Americans do not go on south we will join the Indians, the auk and the dodo.

Other creatures, such as the great auk, were destroyed for food, and others like the marten for their furs.

The modern enquirer will recognize, perhaps, the great auk which once abounded on the coast, but which is now extinct.

Handle it as though it contained a dozen eggs of the extinct great auk, worth about a thousand dollars apiece.

Wild turkey, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, whooping crane, sandhill crane, black-throated bunting, great auk, Eskimo curlew.-(William Brewster, W.P.