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Aulin
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
An arctic gull (cataractes parasiticus), given to make other sea-birds mute through fear, and then eat their discharge—whence it is termed dirty aulin by the northern boatmen.
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Aumbrey, английский
An old north-country term for a bread and cheese locker.
Auk, or awk, английский
A sea-bird with short wings. the great auk or gair-fowl (alca impennis) was formerly common on all the northern coasts, where they laid their eggs, ingeniously poised, on the bare rocks. they were very good eating, and having been taken in great numbers by the esquimaux, and by european sailors on whaling voyages, the species is now supposed to be exterminated.
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