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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A South American dendrocolaptine bird of the genus Xiphorhynchus, as X. procurvus or X. trochilirostris: so called from the shape of the bill. See cut in next column.
  • noun A curlew: same as sickle-bill. Sportsman's Gazetteer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The curlew.

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