Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cliff-swallow or eaves-swallow, Petrochelidon lunifrons, which builds its nest of pellets of mud. See cut under eaves-swallow.

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Examples

  • In a front room that probably had been Sara's, a mud-swallow had built its nest in the far corner.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

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