caribou n also carabou.
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   1818 CHAPPELL 70 'Me get [musket] of Scotchee ship: me givee de Captain one carabou (deer) for um.' 1986 Evening Telegram 1 Mar, p. 14 Starting later this month, 14 hunters will harvest 1,000 caribou in the Nain area [in the first commercial harvest of the Labrador George River herd].
   2 Attrib ~ fly.
   1895 Evening Herald 17 Dec "Newfoundland's Rocky Shore": And list to the boom of the caribou fly/You can't keep him off whatever you try.

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