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Colk2. World English Historical Dictionary

Colk2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Colk2 Also kolk. [Identical with EFris. kolke, which however is the Black Diver.] A local name for the Eider-duck.

1 c. 1549.  D. Monro, West. Iles (MS., = p. 47 ed. 1774). In yis Ile [Swilskeray] yair hantis ane fowl callit ye Colk, little les nor ane goose, quha cummis in vair to ye land to lay his eggis, and to cleck his birdis.

2 1586.  Holinshed, Chron. (1807), I. 73. The Colke foule, which is little lesse than a goose.

3 1703.  Martin, West. Isles (1716), 25.

4 1808.  Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., V. 243. In the islands there is … a migratory bird, called by Martin colk, by others eider duck.

5   b.  See quot. (Perhaps an error.)

6 1833.  Montagu, Ornith. Dict. (ed. Rennie), Colk, a name for the King Eyder.

7 1864.  Atkinson, Prov. Names Birds.

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