Crossword clues for gander
gander
- Look around
- Mature male goose
- Important Canadian air base
- Male graylag
- Male goose
- Farm animal’s look
- Looking at something - ranged
- Look, there's George with his daughter!
- Look for bird
- Look - goose
- Butcher's chestnut horse should be returned
- Goose's mate
- Good, long look
- Take a ___ at (look)
- She said _____ , New-foundland
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gander \Gan"der\, n. [AS. gandra, ganra, akin to Prov. G. gander, ganter, and E. goose, gannet. See Goose.] The male of any species of goose.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"take a long look," slang, 1886, from gander (n.) on the notion of craning one's neck like a goose; earlier it meant "to wander foolishly" (1680s). Related: Gandered; gandering.
Old English gandra "male goose," from Proto-Germanic *gan(d)ron- (cognates: Dutch gander, Middle Low German ganre), from PIE *ghans- "goose" (see goose (n.)). OED suggests perhaps it was originally the name of some other water-bird and cites Lithuanian gandras "stork." Sometimes used 19c. in reference to single men or male-only gatherings (compare stag). Meaning "a long look" is 1912, from gander (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A male goose. 2 A fool, simpleton 3 (context slang used only with “have” and “take” English) A glance, look. vb. (context dialect intransitive English) ramble, wander
WordNet
n. mature male goose
Wikipedia
Gander may refer to:
- Gander (goose), an adult male goose
Gander is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
It includes the town of Gander and the surrounding communities of Appleton, Glenwood and Benton. Gander, which has an airport and military history, is a service centre for a large region of the province. Voters in Gander often swing between the Liberal and Progressive Conservative columns, often electing members who sat on the government benches, making it an important swing district in the province.
The Gander (also called Altbach in France) is a river which flows in Luxembourg and in the French département Moselle, tributary of the Moselle River (left side). Its source is in the commune of Frisange, southern Luxembourg. It flows generally southeast, and from Altwies until Emerange (commune of Burmerange) it forms the French-Luxembourgish border. From Emerange until its outflow into the Moselle at Haute-Kontz, it flows through France. The largest town on the Gander is Mondorf-les-Bains.
Gander was a Newfoundland dog posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal, the "animals' VC", in 2000 for his deeds in World War II, the first such award in over 50 years.
Gander is the surname of the following people:
- Andrew Gander, drummer for the Australian band Benders
- Forrest Gander (born 1956), American poet, author, critic and translator
- Joe Gander (1888-1954), Australian politician
- Marc Gander, co-founder of the Consumer Action Group
- L Marsland Gander (1902-1986), British journalist, war correspondent and radio and television correspondent
Gander (born in 1996) is a thoroughbred race horse by Cormorant (who won eight of his twelve starts) out of Lovely Nurse (a hard-knocker who made one hundred and one starts) by Sawbones. His pedigree includes the top British horse Ribot, as well as Tom Fool, Count Fleet, Bimelech, Eight Thirty, Noor, and Hyperion.
Gander is New York-bred and spent almost his entire racing career of 60 starts in and around New York and New England. Bred by Angela Rugnetta, and owned by Gatsas Thoroughbreds, Gander was originally trained by Charlie Assimakopoulos, and then by John Terranova. In seven seasons, he made 60 starts and won fifteen times, placed ten times, and came in third nine times, earning $1,824,011.
As a two-year-old he placed in the Damon Runyon Stakes at Aqueduct Race Track.
At three, he won the Albany Stakes at the Saratoga Race Course and the Empire Classic Handicap at Belmont Park. He also placed in the Paterson Stakes and came third in the Sam F. Davis Stakes.
At four, he won the Evan Shipman Handicap at Belmont, and came home second in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup to Albert the Great. He was third to Lemon Drop Kid in the Grade I Woodward Stakes. He was also third in the Grade II Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap. Gander, with John Velazquez aboard, also started in the 2000 $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic in a field that included Albert the Great, Captain Steve, Cat Thief, Fusaichi Pegasus, Giant's Causeway, Lemon Drop Kid, and Tiznow. He came in ninth.
Racing at the age of five, he won the Grade II Meadowlands Cup Handicap, placed in the Grade III New Hampshire Sweepstakes Handicap, and came third in the Grade I Donn Handicap to Captain Steve, and the Grade I Whitney Handicap to Lido Palace.
At the age of six, with Richard Migliore up, he won the Empire classic for the second time, placed in the Woodward Stakes to Lido Palace, and placed in the Kings Point Handicap to Toddler. In the 2002 Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap, Gander stumbled coming out of the gate and lost his jockey, Mike Smith. He ran around the track riderless and crossed the wire but was disqualified, with Evening Attire the official winner of the race.
Seven in 2003, Gander came home second in the Empire Classic and third in the Grade III Stuyvesant Handicap.
At eight, he took the Kings Point Handicap.
In 1999, Gander was the Champion New York Three-Year-old. In 2000, he was the New York Horse of the Year and the Champion New York Older Horse. As a four-year-old in 2000, he was 3-1-2 from 11 starts with earnings of $388,290.
Gander now lives at Peter Fuller's Runnymede Stables in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
Usage examples of "gander".
Well, one night I am sitting on the bank steps with Big Nig, the crap shooter, and a guy by the name of Skyrocket, who is nobody much, when all of a sudden I notice three guys standing on the sidewalk taking a very good long gander at me, and who are these guys but certain characters from Brooklyn by the name of Harry the Horse, and Spanish John and Little Isadore, and they are very hard characters indeed.
Salamander was slow as a gander, The mare could have beat him the length of the straight, And old Manumission was out of condition, And most of the others were running off weight.
But you that have roved about in the country of Boetia, have lost your valiante captaine Lamathus, whose life I more regarded than all the treasure which you have brought : and therfore the memory of him shall bee renowned for ever amongst the most noble kings and valiant captains : but you accustome when you goe abroad, like men with ganders hearts to creepe through every corner and hole for every trifle.
And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars?
Then the old goose and the gander and all the little goslings started slowly along the road for home, saying cross words in Goose talk all the way!
But he told Gately he should get a gander of the other guys, the Nucks in Polynesian-wear.
Gentlemen: have a gander at these restaurant exhibits of the Sino-epithetic calendrical scheme.
If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.
Meanwhile the bull-dog, the black-and-tan terrier, Alick's sheep-dog, and the gander hissing at a safe distance from the pony's heels carried out the idea of Mrs.
John's by charter flight at dawn - weather permitting - and a further supply would be flown from Montreal to Gander.
A second message told me that suitable syringes existed only at the Bronx Zoo and at the Vancouver Aquarium, and that both institutions had been asked to air express their syringes to Gander, from which point another charter flight would ferry them to Burgeo in the morning.
It was then he noticed the drip-drop exiting from the block, and when the garage attendant took a gander at that he muttered "Ai, Chi-hua-hua!
Since he and Thunder had often, in garrison times past, engaged in the cavalry's sporting contests of gander pulling, he was even better at the voltige than Roozeboom had been.
Someday, after the war, it'll make a book: one of a million war memoirs that will clog libraries from Novosibirsk to Gander to Sequim to Batavia.
The reason stood well over six foot in height, and was going to be shown, in vulgar parlance, that what was sauce for the goose could be sauce for the gander as well.