blue-bill

The nominal amplification provides poetic texture in the syllabic exchange of vowel and syllable, the quick, trochaic Anglo-Saxon stresses hitting the first beat of most words: "dipper, dapper, dopper, broad-bill, blue-bill."

Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Then the teal and the wood-duck (it took a long time to paint the wood-duck) and the spoonbill and the blue-bill and the canvasback and the goose and the brant and the loon -- all chose their paint.

Indian Why Stories 1915

Even while they worked in plain sight, big flocks of teal and blue-bill stooped toward them and whirled around them with a rush of wings.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

Then the teal and the wood-duck (it took a long time to paint the wood-duck) and the spoonbill and the blue-bill and the canvasback and the goose and the brant and the loon -- all chose their paint.

Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

Shiela, riding ahead with Gray, tossed bits of bread into the water; and the little blue-bill ducks came swimming in scores, keeping up with the horses so fearlessly and persistently that the girl turned in her saddle and looked back at her father in delight.

The Firing Line 1899