TROCHIL

trochil. Trochil, n. a hollow ring round a column next to the tore

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Tro″chil (?), n. [[Cf. F. trochile. See Trochilus.]] (Zoöl.) 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.