Gander | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

gander month
That month in which a man's wife-lies in: wherefore, during that time, husbands plead a sort of indu...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
gander-pulling
A brutal species of amusement practised in Nova Scotia. We quote Judge Halliburton's account of it f...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
gander-month
the month in which the wife lies in. Derb. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose