arrie

Ultimately onomatopoeic from the bird's cry, the name may have entered English via Russian; it is also used by the Aleuts.^[1]

arrie (plural arries)

1. (Alaska) A murre or guillemot.
   • 1953, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of game animals: an account of those land animals ...:

     Now this pioneer naturalist goes on to tell us that the shell of the arrie's egg is of such remarkable strength, that it will stand rough handling that would in a moment destroy ordinary eggs;

• Riera, airer, reair

arrie (plural arries)

1. (obsolescent) alternative form of airie

• “arrie, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.