Sic"kle*bill` (?), n. Zool. (a)
Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.
(b)
A curlew.
(c)
A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
© Webster 1913.