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Definition of Chimney swallow

1. Noun. American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys.

2. Noun. Common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc..

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimney Swallow

chimla chimlas chimley chimleys chimney chimney-duty chimney-money chimney bellflower chimney breast chimney corner

chimney corners chimney plant chimney pot chimney pots chimney stack chimney swallow (current term) chimney sweep chimney sweeps chimney swift chimneyed

chimneyless chimneylike chimneypiece chimneypieces chimneypot chimneys chimneystack chimneysweep chimneysweeper

Literary usage of Chimney swallow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their by Hugh Murray, James Nicol (1844)
"... Bird of Washington—Osprey—Buzzards—Hawks— Screech- owl —Virginian Owl — Chuck-Will's-Widow—Whip-poor- Will—Night Hawk—Chimney-swallow—Purple Martin ..."

2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1853)
"In point of fact, the chimney swallow constructs its nest of very small twigs glued together, and to the chimney by a gum, which the bird secretes from its ..."

3. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"bruary, and proves the impossibility of the hybernation of these birds. The British species are migratory. chimney swallow. ..."

4. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"We are furnished with an instance well adapted for this purpose in the American chimney-swallow ( Cyp- ..."

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