English

Noun

devil screecher ‎(plural devil screechers)

1. (archaic, Britain) A swift.
   • 1883, Edgar MacCulloch, Notes, Queries, Notices and News, The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 1, No. 12, page 394

     My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher.