Tro″chil (?), n. [Cf. F. trochile. See Trochilus.] (Zoöl.) The crocodile bird.
The crocodile... opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding. Sir T. Herbert.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.