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ha-ha-wie [< Algonk.] Obs. 
n. a pintail duck.
- 1795 (1911) I also observed several flocks of sea-fowl flying about the shores; such as, gulls, black-heads, loons, old wives, ha-ha-wies, dunter geese, arctic gulls, and willicks.
- 1882 The long-tail (Dafila acuta, Linn.) was obtained from Fort George, and is not uncommon in the interior part of Hudson's Bay where it is called the "hah-wee-a."
- 1795 (1911) I also observed several flocks of sea-fowl flying about the shores; such as, gulls, black-heads, loons, old wives, ha-ha-wies, dunter geese, arctic gulls, and willicks.