Obs. [App. a contraction of barnacle-goose.] The barnacle-goose: see BARNACLE 2.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. I. (1633), 201/2. The (Trees-brood) Bar-geese, mid th’ Hebridian wave … their far-flown wings do wave.
1647. N. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 25. Such garbes, as … transclout them into gant bar-geese, ill-shapen shotten shell-fish, Egyptian Hieroglyphicks.
