What does gander mean?
Gander means A male goose..
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/ˈɡæn.də(ɹ)/ · noun
A male goose..
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".
Use gander when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gander means A male goose..
Common synonyms include butcher's, butcher's hook.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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