stranger Nfld, Obs.
n. a species of duck.
- 1776  (1792)  We brought in a beaver, a goose, a bottle-nosed diver, five ducks, four strangers, and three hundred and seventeen eggs.
- 1777  (1792)  After breakfast I went in a skiff with two hands round the harbour, took up all the traps, and shot two strangers.