Definition of snipe

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Snipe (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak..

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Dowitcher :: Dowitcher (n.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback..
Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () The bellows fish.
Redbreast :: Redbreast (n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot..
Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin..
Shadbird :: Shadbird (n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad..
Squatty :: Squatter (n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat..
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Bellows Fish :: Bellows fish () A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish..
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Snipe :: Snipe (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak..
Snipebill :: Snipebill (n.) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
Snite :: Snite (n.) A snipe.
Snipefish :: Snipefish (n.) The bellows fish.
Schizognathous :: Schizognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds..
Snipebill :: Snipebill (n.) A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
Scolopacine :: Scolopacine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family..
Willet :: Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew..
Brownback :: Brownback (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
Longbeak :: Longbeak (n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
Juddock :: Juddock (n.) See Jacksnipe.
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