单词 | hook-bill |
释义 | hook-billn. 1. A bill with a hook; a billhook. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook wood-billc725 billc1000 falsartc1380 wood-hookc1440 falchion1483 forest-bill1488 bush-scythe1552 brush-bill1588 cutting-bill1601 bill-hook1611 hook-bill1613 bush-bill1631 hack1846 snagger1847 slasher1858 bush-hook1860 slash-hook1891 1613 T. Campion Relation Royall Entertainm. sig. A3v One of them in his hand bearing a hooke-bill. 2. ‘The curved beak of a bird’ (Ogilvie). Cf. hook-nose n. 3. ‘A spent male salmon whose jaws have become hooked’ ( Cent. Dict.). Derivatives ˈhook-billed adj. having a curved bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of particular shape long-billed1594 latirostrous1646 bill-twisteda1657 spoon-billed1668 hook-billed1695 slender-billed1769 thick-billed1770 bow-beaked1791 boat-billed1821 slender-beaked1824 tenuirostral1837 broad-billed1839 planirostrate1858 tenuirostrate1860 planirostral1890 1695 London Gaz. No. 3080/4 Hookbil'd Ducks. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 495 Hook-billed Duck, Raii Syn. p. 150.2. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 182 The male [of hump-back salmon] is slab-sided, hook-billed and distorted. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 219 Among the breeds differing in structure may be mentioned..the hook-billed and tufted ducks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1613 |
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