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hagden, hagdown local.
Also hagdel, hagdon.
A name of the Greater Shearwater, Puffinus major; = hackbolt.
1832W. D. Williamson Hist. State Maine I. 150 The Hagdel [is] of a dark brown colour, about as large as a Murr, though its feathers are longer. 1843in Yarrell Hist. Birds III. 506 Nor could I ascertain that a Greater Shearwater was ever shot..They are commonly known by the name of Hagdowns. 1878W. A. Andrews Log of Nautilus 79 Plenty of Mother Carey's chickens, hagdens, and marble-headers. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 212 Greater Shearwater..Hackbolt (Scilly Islands), Hagdown (Dungarvan, Isle of Man.) 1954Fisher & Lockley Sea-Birds i. 26 The Tristan great shearwater also probably reaches its greatest abundance on the North American coast,..where it is known as the ‘hagdon’. 1959Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 141 Wynne-Edwards reminds us that it [sc. the sooty shearwater] is known to the fishermen as the hagdown or black hagdon. |