Meaning of Gander | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male goose.
2. A surname.
3. A fool, simpleton.
4. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
5. A glance, look.
   informal
6. A man living apart from his wife.
   US

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Examples

“Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.”

“Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander.”

“Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.”

“Have a gander at what he’s written.”

“I took a gander and she seemed so familiar.”

“As well as the church and its sexton, the market house is worth a gander, while the hop fields and orchards are "reminding one of Kent", for we are in another "Garden of England".”

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