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egger n O Sup2 ~ sb2 (1834-); NID
n2. Person who plunders the nests of sea-birds for the eggs.
[1822] 1928 CORMACK 8 Baccalieu Island ... is visited by men in
boats and small schooners called Eggers, who carry off cargoes of new-laid eggs. [1833]
1848 Nautical Magazine 667 These men, the eggers, combine together and form a
strong company. They suffer no one to interfere with their business, driving away the
fishermen, or any one else that attempts to collect eggs near where they happen to be.
[1834] 1926 AUDUBON 253 "The Eggers of Labrador." 1863 HIND [ii], 190 It was formerly the
custom for Americans called 'eggers' to take possession of the islands on which
innumerable sea-birds laid their eggs, and drive the inhabitants of the coast away when
they ventured to take any. 1902 DELABARRE 202 Murre. Common, but much less so than
formerly, owing to eggers.
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