Shēar'wa·ter, n.

n. [Ger. wasser-scherer; — so called from its running lightly along the surface of the water.] (Ornith.) A web-footed marine bird, of the genus Puffinus, allied to the gulls.

Shearwater petrel or Manx shearwater, the Puffinus Anglorum. [Written also shearwater.]