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Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill
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broadbill
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoveler \Shov"el*er\, n. [Also shoveller.] One who, or that which, shovels. (Zo["o]l.) A river duck ( Spatula clypeata ), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, ...
Wikipedia
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Broadbills are a family of birds. Other uses include: Broadbills, a common alternate name for monarch flycatchers in the genus Myiagra An alternate name for the lesser scaup , a North American duck An alternate name for the swordfish . The USS Broadbill ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several ducks, having a broad bill, including the shoveler 2 Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tropical American heron related to night herons [syn: boatbill , boat-billed heron , Cochlearius cochlearius ] diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill [syn: scaup , scaup duck , bluebill ] freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having ...
Usage examples of broadbill.
They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.
I was tremendously thrilled by the sight of an amazingly large broadbill swordfish.
I was especially curious about this drifting with bait down deep, which was something I had always wanted to try on broadbill swordfish.
I let him have it longer than I ever let even a broadbill play with a bait.
Surely that brown-hooked rakish leathery dorsal could not belong to a broadbill swordfish, one of my old gladiator friends way down here in the Antipodes!
I wanted to excite these boatmen who had scarcely ever heard of a broadbill, I performed rather violently and strenuously, which soon told upon me.
Russell to see their families, and no doubt to talk fish, especially the broadbill battle.
He actually had something of the look of a broadbill swordfish without the sword.
I thought we were going to have a smooth, glassy sea, and had my eyes keen for broadbill fins.
Any moment I might raise an enormous black Marlin or a great sailfish or mako, or even a broadbill, not to think of some new species of fish.
Could it really be true that I had caught a broadbill, way out in New Zealand?
Such a marvelous and amazing fish as the broadbill had never been imagined by them.
I not only consented to that, but told them to have the broadbill cut up so everybody in the village could eat some of it.
Nevertheless, you must almost do that if you expect to see a Marlin or a mako or a broadbill flash up out of the depths.
Avalon, when thousands of people would flock out to see a broadbill I had brought in.