Shrike - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition shrike

Definition :

Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidaelig having a strong hooked bill toothed at the tip Most shrikes are insectivorous but the common European gray shrike Lanius excubitor the great northern shrike L borealis and several others kill mice small birds etc and often impale them on thorns and are on that account called also butcher birds See under Butcher