ˈcargoose
[app. f. carr n.2 + goose: the bird breeds in meres and fens: cf. carr swallow.]
A name for the Crested Grebe.
| 1677 Charleton Exerc. de Nomin. Animal. 107 Avis quædam anate paulo major..agri Cestrensis incolis (ubi frequens est) a Cargoos dicta. 1789 Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 232 Why there are no..cargeese upon these lakes nobody informs me. 1879 Johns Brit. Birds 609/2. |