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gull

/ˈɡʌl/ noun C2
  1. A cheating trick; a fraud. (slang)
  2. A stupid animal.
  3. One easily cheated; a dupe.

Plural gulls

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Would you like to be a gull?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 54 · C1
As Dantès (his eyes turned in the direction of the Château d’If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomègue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor’s eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 226 · C1
Franz was sitting on the spot where he was on the previous evening when his mysterious host had invited him to supper; and he saw the little yacht, now like a sea-gull on the wave, continuing her flight towards Corsica.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 345 · C1
One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 154 · C1

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