Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trochil \Tro"chil\, n. [Cf. F. trochile. See {Trochilus}.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   The crocodile bird.

         The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil
         in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Herbert.