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A flock of geese
Answer for the clue "A flock of geese ", 6 letters:
gaggle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of goose when they are on the ground or on the water. 2 Any group or gathering of related things; bunch. vb. To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaggle \Gag"gle\, n. [Cf. Gaggle v. i.] (Zo["o]l.) A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. Hence: A gathering of people, especially a noisy one. Hence: Any clustered group of related objects.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., gagyll , with reference to both geese and women (on the notion of "chattering company"). Barnhart says possibly from Old Norse gagl "small goose, gosling, wild goose;" OED calls it "one of the many artificial terms invented in the 15th c. as ...
Usage examples of gaggle.
A gaggle of doctors and nurses attended Et Avian as he stumbled from the hovercar.
The gaggle of Warders out front near Gareth Bryne were evidence the meeting still went on.
Meredith parked his slender attache case on the desk, and a gaggle of federal men squeezed into the office: Nicholas Katzenbach, John Doar, Ed Guthman, Jim McShane, Deputy Marshal Cecil Miller and U.
In Kansas City the usual gaggle of esurient sycophants who cannot differentiate between the Artist and the Art rushed the podium for autographs and cheap thrills such as the pressing of flesh.
Gideon shouldered his way through the pack of rakes, edged past the gaggle of fair young things, plastered a surprised expression on his face, and made the guilty pair an elegant, sarcastic bow.
Before she can ask, the man steps back to make way for a procession that suddenly divides the crowd: a naked woman, skin painted silver, face masked with a featureless white disc, goes by on a white horse, followed by a gaggle of white-robed acolytes whooping and beating on little drums and tambourines and sticks.
A place she had every reason not to return to, having left behind there a gaggle of enraged Yhelle Equality Rangers, a burning casino called the Black Whole, and a sizable amount of money.
Others had entered the hall whilst the two men were speakinga gaggle of clan maids wheeling a laundry barrow and two ancient oasters from the brewhouse who stank of yeastand all eased back against the walls, sensing the tension in the entryway as livestock sensed a storm.
She had just watched a gaggle of Blue Devils bumping chests after Shelden Williams had rebounded a Shavlik Randolph miss and been fouled.
There was a gaggle of tonsured priests waiting for them, in addition to a dozen or more Church knights and five women, all but one of them younger than Adrina.
Listener spotted a gaggle of juvenile coelurosaurs, gamely stalking their prey among the tree-trunk legs of the herbivores, at every moment risking death from a carelessly placed footfall or tail twitch.
My retreat took me straight into a gaggle of reporters, and without warning at least three flashbulbs went off in my face.
But he was standing at the security checkpoint when Stokely, wearing an XXXL white guayabera and a broad-brimmed straw hat, appeared in the midst of a gaggle of passengers.
He saw Ichabod standing primly amid a gaggle of tattooed, unkempt salvagers and waved.
I waited until a gaggle of merrymakers tooting horns had passed, and then crossed the crowded space toward them.