Shearbill

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A seabird, the black skimmer.

    "His cheeks thus pulled into shadow while the light flickered across nose and brow, he looked disquietingly like a shearbill about to stoop on prey."

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"His cheeks thus pulled into shadow while the light flickered across nose and brow, he looked disquietingly like a shearbill about to stoop on prey."

Etymology

From shear + bill.

Related phrases

black skimmer

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