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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Snipebill :: Snipebill (n.) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
Redbreast :: Redbreast (n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot..
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Brownback :: Brownback (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
Yellowlegs :: Yellowlegs (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2..
Snite :: Snite (n.) A snipe.
Snipe :: Snipe (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak..
Longbeak :: Longbeak (n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
Snipefish :: Snipefish (n.) The bellows fish.
Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () The bellows fish.
Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..
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..
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe..
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Snipe :: Snipe (n.) A fool; a blockhead.
Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin..
Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
Whisp :: Whisp (n.) A flock of snipe.
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..
Snypy :: Snypy (a.) Like a snipe.
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