SPOON-BILL, noun [spoon and bill.] A fowl of the grallic order, and genus Platatea, so named from the shape of its bill, which is somewhat like a spoon or spatula. Its plumage is white beautiful.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.