A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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Ringoose, -gouse, n. [The first element may be ring- Ring n.1, common in the names of birds from the 18th c.] Some species of goose. —1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 3.
Ringouse 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 99.
Ringoose