calloo

plural calloos

1. ScotlandThe long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.

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

   1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV

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   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.

   2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette