chimney swift
an American swift, Chateura pelagica, which often builds its nest in an unused chimney.
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How to use chimney swift in a sentence
The chimney swift is, properly speaking, not a swallow at all, though chimney swallow is its more popular name.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanThe chimney swift has learned to nest in chimneys since the Pilgrims landed; for there were no chimneys before that time.
The Woodpeckers | Fannie Hardy EckstormThe smooth chimney swift flashes above the barn and is gone.
Minstrel Weather | Marian StormThe eave swallow and barn swallow and the chimney swift all belie their names in the few wild haunts still uninvaded by man.
The Log of the Sun | William BeebeOn the wing the chimney swift looks like an athlete stripped for the race.
Bird Stories from Burroughs | John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for chimney swift
a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
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