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shearbills

shearbills is the plural of shearbill.

Meaning of shearbill

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

Questions about shearbills

What is shearbills the plural of?
Shearbills is the plural of shearbill.

Words near shearbills in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shearbills (page history and authors); shearbill (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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