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shearbill

shearbill noun: a seabird, the black skimmer.

Noun

shearbill (plural shearbills)

  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

Forms of shearbill

pluralshearbills

Origin of shearbill

From shear + bill.

Questions about shearbill

What does shearbill mean?
Shearbill means a seabird, the black skimmer.
What part of speech is shearbill?
Shearbill is a noun.
What is the plural of shearbill?
The plural of shearbill is shearbills.

Words near shearbill in the dictionary

  1. shear-thickening
  2. shear-thinning
  3. shearability
  4. shearable
  5. Shearan
  6. shearbill
  7. shearbills
  8. sheard
  9. sheards
  10. sheared
  11. shearer

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