billed

• IPA^(key): /bɪld/

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• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophone: build

billed

1. simple past and past participle of bill

billed (not comparable)

1. Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
   • 1894 March, Arthur Morrison, “Zig-Zag Scansorial”, Zig-Zags at the Zoo (XXI), in The Strand Magazine, volume 7, number 39, London: G. Newnes, page 247:

     The toucan will not talk in the manner of the parrot, but he (or she) is an admirable listener. I have told the green-billed toucan many stories of bird-scandal without interruption, and, on the whole, the conversation has been most improving.

• duckbilled
• top-billed

• “billed, adj.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “billed, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “billed, adj.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “billed, adj.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• bellid