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单词 hook-bill
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hook-billn.

Etymology: See bill n.1, bill n.2
1. A bill with a hook; a billhook.
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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.
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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).
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