American bald eagle

noun

Definition of American bald eagle

: bald eagle … treated this winter to the rare sight of an adult American bald eagle, soaring with wings spread six feet wide, perched in a tree or a vacant osprey nest near the shore, or resting on ice floes as the tide carries them along.— Peter Boody, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2005

First Known Use of American bald eagle

1788, in the meaning defined above

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