chuck-will's-widow Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States
    Caprimulgus carolinensis.

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Chuck`-Will's-wid"ow noun
Definitions
  1. (Zool.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

Webster 1913