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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

trochile

. See

(Zool.)

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.

Noun.

[L. trochilus; Gr. to run.]

An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile's mouth.

A name given to the golden crowned wren.

In zoology, the humming bird or honeysucker, a kind of beautiful little birds, natives of America.

In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.

trochil ‎(plural trochils)

(zoology) The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique., 2. ed. revised and enlarged.
  The crocodile […] opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.