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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

THICK-KNEE

THICK-KNEE Thick "-knee `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A stone curlew. See under Stone.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

thick-knee

thick-knee ▶noun a large-eyed ploverlike bird with mottled brownish plumage, inhabiting open stony or sandy country. Also called stone curlew. [Family Burhinidae: two genera and several species, in particular Burhinus oedicnemus of Eurasia and Africa. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

thick-knee

thick-knee ▶noun another term for stone curlew.