Meaning of pelican | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place in Australia:
2. A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales.
3. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
4. A rural locality in Western Downs Region, Queensland.
5. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
6. a large nose
7. A place in the United States:
8. A minor city on Chichagof Island, Alaska.
9. A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
   obsolete
10. An unincorporated community in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
11. A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
12. A township in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, named after Pelican Lake (Crow Wing County, Minnesota).
13. A waterbomber.
    Canada, slang
14. A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, named after the Pelican River (Otter Tail River tributary).
15. An ageing prostitute.
    slang
16. A town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, named after Pelican Lake (Oneida County, Wisconsin).

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Examples

“The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment.”

“Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.”

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