screech-owl
See also: screech owl
English
editNoun
editscreech-owl (plural screech-owls)
- Alternative form of screech owl
- 1888 July 14, “Bird Legends”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLIII, number 1024, London: […], page 40, column 2:
- It is said that whenever a member of the house of the Arundels of Wardour lies on his death-bed, a pair of large screech-owls fly round the battlements each night till his decease.
References
edit- “screech-owl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.