wheelbird

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The night-jar or goatsucker, Caprimulgus europæus: so named from its chirring cry, likened to the noise of a spinning-wheel. Also spinner and wheeler.

Wiktionary

1. n. UK, dialect, dated The European goatsucker.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The European goatsucker.