shearbill
English
Noun
shearbill (plural shearbills)
- A seabird, the black skimmer.
- 1971, Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and Darkness:
- 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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