the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. See petrel.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An obsolete form of petrel.
Word Usage
"On the 17th, they faw many wjiales, one feal, penguins, fome wtute bird% another fort of peterel, which is brown and white, and not much unlike a pintado j ifnd fome other forts."