Definition of "osprey"

osprey

/ˈɑspɹi/

noun
plural ospreys
1. A bird of prey (Pandion haliaetus) that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
  Quotations
  I will provide thee of a princely osprey.
  1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
  But (oh Jove!) your actions, / Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, / Subdue before they touch.
  1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
  A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co. Fermanagh in what has been described as like finding long-lost treasure.
  2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “'Like finding long-lost treasure': Ospreys breed in Ireland for first time in 200 years”, in Irish Examiner‎
2. Aigrette (ornamental feather).