stranger n OED ~ sb 10 a (Nfld: 1792); DC Nfld (1776). A variety of waterfowl.
[1776] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 178 We brought in a beaver, a goose, a bottle-nosed diver, five ducks, four strangers, and three hundred and seventeen eggs. 1792 ibid Gloss i, xv ~ A water-fowl of the duck kind.
