Originally (now British regional): any of various guillemots and other auks, esp. the razorbill, Alca torda. Later chiefly spec. (North American)…

A local name for various sea-birds native to Great Britain; as the Guillemot (Alca troile), the Razor-bill (Alca torda), and the Puffin (Fratercula ar…

Any of several auks; esp. a guillemot.

A name applied dialect to one of the three species of the Auk; the Razor-bill.

A black and white auk, Alca torda, which has a deep, narrow, almost rectangular bill and nests on coastal cliffs around the North Atlantic and the…

= murre, n.

A local name for various birds: (a) the cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo; (b) the pewit-gull, Larus ridibundus; (c) the chough, Pyrrhocorax graculus…

= sense 1; cf. razor-billed auk n. at razor-billed, adj. compounds.

Newfoundland and Labrador. The razorbill, Alca torda.

= sense 1.