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Chuck-will's-widow   /tʃək-wɪlz-wˈɪdoʊ/   Listen
Chuck-will's-widow

noun
1.
Large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States.  Synonym: Caprimulgus carolinensis.






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"Chuck-will's-widow" Quotes from Famous Books



... At night you had often to ride from picket to picket in dense darkness, trusting to the horse to find his way, or sometimes dismounting to feel with your hands for the track, while the great Southern fire-flies offered their floating lanterns for guidance, and the hoarse "Chuck-will's-widow" croaked ominously from the trees, and the great guns of the siege of Charleston throbbed more faintly than the drumming of a partridge, far away. Those islands are everywhere so intersected by dikes and ledges and winding creeks as to form a natural military ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson



Words linked to "Chuck-will's-widow" :   goatsucker, nightjar, Caprimulgus, caprimulgid, genus Caprimulgus



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