Crossword-Solution: RAZORBILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Razorbill | n. | A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix. |
| Razorbill | n. | See Cutwater, 3. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “RAZORBILL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Type of auk | 1 answer |
| sea bird of the North Atlantic with a stout sideways flattened bill | 1 answer |
| Black-and-white seabird | 5 answers |
| auk | 9 answers |
| PLOVER relative | 12 answers |
| OCEANIC bird | 13 answers |
| SHORT-billed bird | 14 answers |
| OCEAN bird | 16 answers |
| ANTARCTIC bird | 17 answers |
| Arctic bird | 29 answers |
| web-footed bird | 31 answers |
| Aquatic bird | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with RAZORBILL (5)
Razorbill--you know the old story of the Razorbills?--Ha! ha!" But the King did not laugh; he extended his hand and said gently, "You are welcome--my cousin!" Indeed, my sister-in-law would have probably said that--dissipated though he was--he was the only gentleman there.
Puffin, guillemot, black guillemot, razorbill, cormorant, shag, fulmar petrel, storm petrel perhaps, kittiwake-gull, common gull, eider-duck, oyster-catcher, after their kind, had the great, cliff-piled, inlet-studded, rock-dotted stretch of coast practically to themselves--to themselves in their thousands.
This is done by the male wood-pigeon, missel-thrush, blue martin, the buzzard, stone-curlew, curlew, dottrel, the sandpiper, common gull, black-coated gull, kittiwake, razorbill, puffin, storm-petrel, the great blue heron and the black vulture.
Young (below)] THE RAZORBILL Alca torda, Linnæus The Alcidæ are pre-eminently pelagic birds that spend their whole life out on the ocean except for a few short weeks every year, when they assemble in thousands on precipitous cliffs to breed.
During most of the year the Razorbill lives far out at sea in the Atlantic, never coming within sight of land unless driven inshore by some winters gale.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).