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Shearbill
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The scissorbill, cutwater, or black skimmer; the bird
Rhynchops nigra
: so called from the bill, which resembles a pair of shears. See cut under
Rhynchops
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The black skimmer. See
skimmer
.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A
seabird
, the black skimmer.
Word Usage
"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."
variant
skimmer