Wading bird
The crossword clue "Wading bird" is answered by RAIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 37 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
RAIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAIL answer page.
Used 37 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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