eider
- n duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females
- Last week I cited from memory what I thought was a story in William Greider's 1992 book Who Will Tell the People about newspapers and their security guards.
- Animal life abounded on the frozen bayflocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear.
- However, the Kong Harald rides the waves like an eider duck at a comfortable 15 knots through the driving snow and stiff wind, and it seems I've found my sea legs: I lurch across .