the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A woodpecker.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who hews wood.
n. Any bird of the subfamily Dendro-colaptinæ. as Xiphocolaptes emigrans: a book-name. See cuts under saberbill and Upucerthia.
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n. any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
Word Usage
"Now, a year later, I suddenly stopped twenty yards away, for at the end of the silvery cadence of a woodhewer, I heard the low, measured, toneless rhythm which instantly revived to mind every detail of the clearing."