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Walk off over pitch to have a little gander
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gosling
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gosling or Goslings may refer to: A young goose Gosling (surname)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gosling \Gos"ling\, n. [AS. g[=o]s goose + -ling.] A young or unfledged goose. A catkin on nut trees and pines. --Bailey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), from Old Norse gæslingr , from gos "goose" (see goose (n.)) + diminutive suffix. replaced Old English gesling . The modern word may be a Middle English formation from Middle English gos "goose."
Usage examples of gosling.
She looked for the family with the goslings - that must be the five geese swimming apart from the others.
Now the goslings were young geese just like their mother and father, only smaller.
May ducks turn to the left for their coops, the June ducks follow the hens to the top meadow, and even the idiot gosling has an inspiration now and then and stumbles on his own habitation.
The Pollingtons, the Wilders, the Wardens, the Baerens, the Goslings, and others of his acquaintance, talked of Lady Camper and General Ople rather maliciously.
Robinson or Pendle, least of all that Orsin was perhaps Mr Gosling, or Trulla possibly Miss Spencer.
He was in a terrible hurry, as Mister Gosling had only gone to the Jolly Bargeman and would be back in half an hour.
Mister Gosling had gone to the Jolly Bargeman to fetch back their supper, and the McDippers were below.
The brandy came, and Mister Gosling, with a reproachful look at Barnacle, poured it over his bleeding arm.
Mister Gosling firmly, as if, by washing alone, and without a paper or a penny changing hands, Barnacle had passed into his ownership.
Somehow he felt that they were a secret between him and Mister Gosling, and that to share a secret with the big man raised Barnacle a little .
Mister Gosling was about to push Barnacle after when he was forestalled.
Mister Gosling breathed deeply, and, telling Barnacle to get a move on with sweeping the hay off the deck, went down below again.
The Colonel was staring straight at Mister Gosling in a queer, searching kind of way that filled Barnacle with uneasiness.
Mister Gosling, moving in front of Barnacle as if to stop the Colonel getting at him with a knife or something.
Mister Gosling, and kept making quick, pushing movements with his hands behind his back, to tell Barnacle to shove off up the ladder.