Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The European goatsucker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect, dated The
European goatsucker .
Etymologies
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wheel + bird?
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