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crow-bill

crow-bill is the alternative form of crowbill.

Meaning of crowbill

Noun

crowbill (plural crowbills)

  1. A kind of forceps for extracting bullets, etc., from wounds.
    Synonyms:
    crow's bill
  2. (historical) Synonym of bec de corbin (“poleaxe with a modified hammerhead and a spike mounted on the top of the pole”).
    Synonyms:
    bec de corbin

Forms of crow-bill

pluralcrow-bills

Questions about crow-bill

What is crow-bill the alternative form of?
Crow-bill is the alternative form of crowbill.

Words near crow-bill in the dictionary

  1. crow's nests
  2. crow's-feet
  3. crow's-foot
  4. crow's-nest
  5. crow's-nests
  6. crow-bill
  7. crow-bills
  8. crow-black
  9. crow-eater
  10. crow-eaters
  11. Crow-Fukase syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crow-bill (page history and authors); crowbill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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