a variant of Cockatoo (q.v.), quite fallen into disuse, if quotation be not a nonceuse.
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 137:
«A few wretched-looking huts and hovels, the dwellings of`cockatooers,' who are not, as it might seem, a species ofbird, but human beings; who rent portions of this forest. . . on exorbitant terms . . . and vainly endeavour to existon what they can earn besides, their frequent compulsoryabstinence from meat, when they cannot afford to buy it, evenin their land of cheap and abundant food, giving them someaffinity to the grain-eating white cockatoos.»