Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curved or hooked bill or beak of a bird.
- noun A spent male salmon whose jaws have become hooked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
parrots with ahooked bill forclimbing and forcrushing nuts and seeds.
Etymologies
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hook + bill
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Examples
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Someone, Qwilleran thought, had expected to steal the bird and had put a hand too close to the cage, only to have Jasper's powerful hookbill grab a finger.
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998
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