[app. f. CARE sb.2 + GOOSE: the bird breeds in meres and fens: cf. carr swallow.] A name for the Crested Grebe.
1677. Charleton, Exerc. de Nomin. Animal., 107. Avis quædam anate paulo major … agri Cestrensis incolis (ubi frequens est) a Cargoos dicta.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, II. 232. Why there are no … cargeese upon these lakes nobody informs me.
1879. Johns, Brit. Birds, 609/2.
