OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7248

petrel

/ˈpɛtɹəl/
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damero • petrel
Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they…
The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Gu…
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