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garefowl

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From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.

noun garefowls · gairfowl · gare-fowl · gurfel

  1. The great auk. The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb.
  2. archaic, rare The razorbill

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@misc{garefowl_2026,
  title = {garefowl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garefowl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}