Word: goney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...
...wings of a goney, I would fly to my own native home; I would leave Desolation's cold weary ground, For right whales for us there is none...
| 1 |