- Drinking last beer is a big blow! - Force 8 wind - Strong wind - Strong wind outside Glendale - Very strong wind - Waver - A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a
hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
- Bird of prey - Butcherbird - Curved-bill bird - Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the
family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most
shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius
excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several
others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns,
and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
- Tropical American bird - Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds
of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the
species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip,
when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into
this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found
from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.