What does whewer mean?
Whewer means (UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope)..
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/hwjuːə/ · noun
(UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope)..
Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2
Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon.
With the Fish I have put up in a Box some Water Fowl, viz. a Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins, a Widgeon, and a Whewer; which two last are Male and Female of the same kind.
Widgeons are common in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely, &c. where the male is called the widgeon, and the female, the whewer. They feed upon wild periwinkles, grass, weeds, &c. which grow at the bottom of rivers and lakes. Their flesh has a very delicious taste, not inferior to teal, or wild ducks.
the choicer fowl of mallard and widgeon (locally "whewers"), both in the Humber and the Tees, the former species being, of course, resident in the county.
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Whewer means (UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope)..
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Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2
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