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Nighthawk
Answer for the clue "Nighthawk ", 7 letters:
bullbat
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A New World bird, (taxlink Chordeiles minor species noshow=1), the (vern: common nighthawk).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker [syn: nighthawk , mosquito hawk ]
Usage examples of bullbat.
The moon was attending to business in the section of sky where it belonged, and the trees was making shadows on the ground according to science and nature, and there was a kind of conspicuous hullabaloo going on in the bushes between the bullbats and the orioles and the jack-rabbits and other feathered insects of the forest.
It was weird and beautiful and exciting to be sitting out there listening to the bullbats squeak, waiting for people to ha-ha all at once on account of some poor sap getting a pie in the face, or yelp and squeal when the spaceships landed and let loose with a barrage of ray-guns.
He had a keen ear for night sounds--the rustling of varmints, the cries of owls and bullbats, deer nibbling leaves, the death squeak of a rabbit when a coyote or bobcat caught it.