Brewer's: Osprey

or Ospray (a corruption of Latin Ossifragus the bone-breaker). The fish-eagle, or fishing hawk (Pandion haeliaetis).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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