Found 2 hits - Term: sea snipe, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sea snipe \sea" snipe`\ zool.
a a sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
b the bellows fish.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
snipe \snipe\, n. oe. snipe; akin to d. snep, snip, lg. sneppe,
snippe, g. schnepfe, icel. snimacpa in comp., dan.
sneppe, sw. snaumppa a sanpiper, and possibly to e. snap.
see snap, snaffle.
1. zool. any one of numerous species of limicoline game
birds of the family scolopacidae, having a long,
slender, nearly straight beak.
1913 webster
note: the common, or whole, snipe gallinago coelestis
and the great, or double, snipe gallinago major,
are the most important european species. the wilson's
snipe gallinago delicata sometimes erroneously
called english snipe and the gray snipe, or
dowitcher macrohamphus griseus, are well-known
american species.
1913 webster
2. a fool; a blockhead. r. --shak.
1913 webster
half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe.
jack snipe. see jacksnipe.
quail snipe. see under quail.
robin snipe, the knot.
sea snipe. see in the vocabulary.
shore snipe, any sandpiper.
snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. prov. eng.
stone snipe, the tattler.
summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common european
sandpipers.
winter snipe. see rock snipe, under rock.
woodcock snipe, the great snipe.
1913 webster
see also:
snap snaffle scolopacidae gallinago coelestis gallinago major gallinago delicata
english snipe macrohamphus griseus half snipe jack snipe jacksnipe
quail snipe quail robin snipe sea snipe shore snipe
snipe hawk stone snipe summer snipe winter snipe rock snipe
rock woodcock snipe
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