wood-swallow
木燕,木咽
Definitions
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- : any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.
Examples
For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
A worn couch sitting squarely before a wood veneer wall, accented by the head of a deer.
Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.
Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation A Pennsylvania-based wood cabinet and specialty products manufacturer.
I like all of them, in a way, but I like Scissorhands and Ed Wood.
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
They found a few belated sowars of the 3d Cavalry, who took refuge in a wood, and the artillery opened fire at the trees!
Walker had painted a picture he called "Spring," a young girl gathering primroses in a wood.
The hills in sight, however, are very considerably wooded, and wood is apparently the common fuel.