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Meanings of auk in English

Common name for several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.

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Examples for "razorbill"
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The birds, including razorbills and puffins, have been washed ashore on beaches across Wales.
BBC
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Keep your eyes open for everything from brent geese to Arctic terns and razorbills.
Independent.ie
3
There are two Razorbills in the Museum, one in summer and one in winter plumage.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) / And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderne...
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The Razorbill is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) / And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderne...
5
Circling squadrons of gulls and razorbills tracked the lobstermen and schooners across the chill waters.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
Usage of auk in English
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Want great auk! I searched the web for animals he craved.
Futures 1
2
I'd sell auk eggs, and make my fortune, and yourn too.'
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
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You know I have made some dodos and a great auk?
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
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He sold his great auk chicks at a significant profit.
Futures 1
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The extinction of the Labrador duck and the great auk have often been deplored.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...
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Oolichuk continued this process until the first auk was finished.
The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole
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The great auk and the Labrador duck have both become utterly extinct within living memory.
Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador / An Address Presented by Lt.-Col...
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Then, sir, I'd go into the great auk business.
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
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We must be careful lest, like the dodo and the great auk, the breed becomes extinct.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
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Well, sir, I'm goin' to sell them auk eggs for sixteen hundred dollars, two for three thousand.'
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
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And the great auk's eggs too!
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
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If we modern Americans do not go on south we will join the Indians, the auk and the dodo.
The University of Hard Knocks
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Other creatures, such as the great auk, were destroyed for food, and others like the marten for their furs.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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The modern enquirer will recognize, perhaps, the great auk which once abounded on the coast, but which is now extinct.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
15
Handle it as though it contained a dozen eggs of the extinct great auk, worth about a thousand dollars apiece.
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
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Wild turkey, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, whooping crane, sandhill crane, black-throated bunting, great auk, Eskimo curlew.-(William Brewster, W.P.
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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