Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name for the least flycatcher, Empidonax minutus: used chiefly in New England.
- noun Same as
xebec .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small American bird (
Empidonax minimus ); the least flycatcher. - noun (Naut.) See
chebacco .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
American bird (Empidonax minimus); the leastflycatcher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The least flycatcher has another name which at once distinguishes him -- chebec '.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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A pair of the least fly-catchers, the bird which says chebec, chebec, and is a small edition of the pewee, one season built their nest where
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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For example, I have often seen the least flycatcher (a very unromantic-looking body, surely) when he was almost beside himself; flying in a circle, and repeating breathlessly his emphatic _chebec_.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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His _killic_ (so written in the books, and I do not know how to improve upon it) resembles the _chebec_ of the least flycatcher, though much less emphatic, as well as much less frequently uttered, while his
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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