Meaning of calloo | Babel Free

Definitions

The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.

Scotland

Examples

“This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.”

“The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.”

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