shearbill

noun

shearbill

noun

Etymology From shear + bill.

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.1971, Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and Darkness:

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