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old squaw

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old squaw
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) US and Canadian a long-tailed northern sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, having dark wings and a white-and-brown head and body Also called oldwife
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Noun1.old squawold squaw - a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States
Clangula hyemalis, oldwife
sea duck - any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser
Clangula, genus Clangula - a genus of ducks


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At the Five Fingers the dog-food gave out, and a toothless old squaw offered to trade them a few pounds of frozen horse-hide for the Colt's revolver that kept the big hunting-knife company at Hal's hip.
The Call of the Wild by London, Jack View in context
George Kearney says we can have a cooking-stove under the tree outside at the back, and as there will be no rain for three months we can do the cooking there, and that will give us more room for--for the piano when it comes; and there's an old squaw to do the cleaning and washing-up any day--and--and--it will be real fun.
Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context
And yet the old squaw Tistig, at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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