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scissorbill
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Definitions ofscissorbill
1noun
- (southeastern US) A thin feral pig.
- The rorqual or finback whale.
1noun
- A fool, an incompetent; a yokel, a hick.
- A foolish worker who lacks class consciousness and opposes unions; also, a company man, a drone, .
1noun
- A device that skims.
- A person who skims.
- 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.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of the dragonflies in the genus Libellulidae.
- A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- A surface ship.
- A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
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