buffel

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BUFF'EL, noun Buffel's head duck, anas bucephala, a bird with a short blue bill, and a head whose apparent size is greatly increased by the fullness of its feathers, found in winter in the rivers of Carolina.
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