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Eat like a bird?
Answer for the clue "Eat like a bird? ", 7 letters:
swallow
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context transitive English) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. (from 11th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To take (something) in so that it disappears; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ingest through the throat" (transitive), Old English swelgan "swallow, imbibe, absorb" (class III strong verb; past tense swealg , past participle swolgen ), from Proto-Germanic *swelgan / *swelhan (cognates: Old Saxon farswelgan , Old Norse svelgja "to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swallow \Swal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swallowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swallowing .] [OE. swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS. swelgan; akin to D. zwelgen, OHG. swelahan, swelgan, G. schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. svelgia to swallow, SW. sv["a]lja, Dan. sv[ae]lge. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Swallow (also known as the National Swallow ) is a type of one-design keelboat that was used as a two-man Olympic class for the 1948 Olympics . It is now sailed with three crew. The main fleet is at Itchenor in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, with ...
Usage examples of swallow.
Good or bad, saint or killer, Abraxas had taken their minds and swallowed them whole.
It was deep twilight when Ace sat down in front of the fire and attacked the tender, roasted meat, washing it down with swallows of coffee.
McIntyre contends that Turnbull forged the letter and stole the securities, then fearing his guilt would become known, committed still another crime - that of suicide, he could have swallowed a dose of aconitine while at the police court.
No sooner had the squire swallowed a large draught than he renewed the discourse on Jones, and declared a resolution of going the next morning early to acquaint Mr.
If he be unable to swallow, they may be administered as injections, but should gradually be discontinued as reaction takes place.
Is there not something horrible in the look and sound of the word afanc, something connected with the opening and shutting of immense jaws, and the swallowing of writhing prey?
To the surprise of even two such veteran flyers as John Ross and Tom Meeks, the airplane had gone less than fifty yards when she began to rise as gracefully as a swallow in response to her up-turned ailerons and elevators.
Broken stone and iron gashed her bare feet as she plunged into the black arch of the gate, but the pain was swallowed in icy fear as thin, aimless winds tugged at heras she sensed, rather than saw, something move in the utter blackness over her head.
And how can he in good conscience just rip off, swallow, digest and expel as his what an alumnus with a streaked orange face and removable hair has clearly seen first herself?
Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it.
As they glided in towards the anchored vessel Cumbrae read her name from her transom, De Swael, the Swallow.
The following morning the Gull and the Swallow sailed in company back into Table Bay, and as soon as they had anchored under the guns of the fort the Colonel and Cumbrae went ashore.
See how he yawneth, lo, this drunken wight, As though he would us swallow anon right.
With a charging army of twenty-four troops, the cardinal blazed west over the Rhone River bridge, away from Avignon, toward the Apocrypha Archive and toward a wicked thunderhead swallowing up the horizon like some advancing black plague.
I swallowed the warmth of a summer day, and then breathed out through my open mouth, tasting apricots and friendship as I held the flask out to him.