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(v)
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
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(transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
(n)
A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
(countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
(countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
(clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
(adj)
The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
A surname.
(Scotland) A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
(historical) A hooked ram for destroying walls.
A member of the bird family Corvidae, including crows, ravens, jays, choughs, treepies etc.
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
(transitive) To raid and pillage.
(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
(slang) Synonym of money.
(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
(transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
(countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
(botany) The throat of a flower.
A large all-black passerine bird in the crow family, Corvus corax.
A common raven, Corvus corax.
A subspecies of the common raven, Corvus corax varius (including the extinct colour morph leucophaeus), native to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
The common European black crow Corvus corone.
A grey and black Eurasian crow, Corvus cornix.
Any of several passerine birds of the genera Quiscalus, Hypopyrrhus, Lampropsar and Macroagelaius, of the Americas, having iridescent plumage.
A bird of prey.
(heading) Anything that rolls.
A black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.
Corvus macrorhynchos, a large-billed crow of Asia.
The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
Corvus albus, a crow with black and white feathers.
Synonym of black drongo (“Asian passerine bird”).
A bird which, or person who, crows.
An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there.
The harsh call of this or other birds.
An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
Cyanocorax caeruleus, a passeriform bird of the crow family.
An osprey, Pandion haliaetus.
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
Any of the birds in the genus Cryptospiza, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
Corvus meeki, a species of corvid crow.
A town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada.
(Buteo rufofuscus), an African bird of prey with three main subspecies
(Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
Any of several species of bird in the genera Nothocrax, Mitu, Pauxi, and Crax of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas.
Any of the large scavenging birds in the family Cathartidae.
A bird, the crested oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus).
(cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
Any bird of the order Coraciiformes
A griffon vulture.
a bird from the family Rallidae (Amaurolimnas concolor).
A bird of prey species, Buteo buteo.
The male of any bird.
Any of species Cyanocitta cristata of North American jays with blue feathering from the top of its head to midway down its back.
hooded crow
(idiomatic) The eagle.
A bird of prey of southern Asia, Accipiter virgatus.
Any of the large scavenging birds found in the Old World and belonging to the family Accipitridae.
Coracias garrulus, a European species of roller.
A local political leader in Latin America, Spain, or the Philippines.
A widespread species of New World vulture, Sarcoramphus papa.
In falconry, a bird of prey of the eagle or buzzard type, having long wings and long flight feathers.
A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.
Any of various medium-sized birds of the genus Copsychus, found in Africa and Asia.
Any of the birds of several species in the genus Hierococcyx.
A bird of species Crax alector.
(figuratively) A rare or unique, and thus outstanding or unusual, person or thing; a rare bird.
(derogatory) A pigeon.
A name for any of the various choughs.