Obs. [Du. knorhaan, f. knorren to growl, snarl + haan cock.] A name of a S. African species of bustard: = KORAN2.
1731. Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, II. 139. The Knorhan. Among the wild fowls at the Cape there is a sort of birds, a male of which the Europeans there call Knor-cock; a female they call Knor-hen.
1777. G. Forster, Voy. round World, I. 85. The Knorhan, which is … the African bustard.
