baccalieu n also barcaliau.
   1 1895 Evening Herald 17 Dec, [p. 4] He set his compass and he set it true/For Cape St Francis and for Baccalieu,/And the Almighty being at hand,/'Twas short after we made the shore,/And what should it be but the Labrador.
   2 1861 DE BOILIEU 15 [see sense 1 above] From Certain movements...of the bird, known on the coast as the Barcaliau bird,--that is to say, from its flying the whole day in the same direction,--we knew it was migrating to the Funk or Bird Island for the purpose of breeding. 1987 MONTEVECCHI & TUCK 161 The local name 'Baccalieu Birds' has been applied to the multitudes of puffins that raft in huge offshore flocks near the island.

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