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channel-bill
n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenient for the track of shipping.
Also, an arm of the sea, or water communication running between an island or islands and the main or continent, as the British Channel. In an extended sense it implies any passage which separates lands, and leads from one ocean into another, without distinction as to shape.
n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris