dunter goose

English

Noun

dunter goose (plural dunter geese)

1. (obsolete) The eider duck.
   • 1701, John Brand, A Brief Description of Orkney […] :

     All sorts of Duck and Drake, Dunter-Geese, Cleck-Geese, Ember-Geese &c. they have as in Orkney

References

“dunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.