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Meaning of scissorbill

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

scissorbill

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noun

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  1. (southeastern US) A thin feral pig.

  2. The rorqual or finback whale.

noun

Definitions

  1. A fool, an incompetent; a yokel, a hick.

  2. A foolish worker who lacks class consciousness and opposes unions; also, a company man, a drone, .

noun

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  1. A device that skims.

  2. A person who skims.

  3. Any of three species of bird in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.

  4. Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.