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Definition: woodcock snipe
woodcock snipe
n 1: Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe [syn:
great snipe,
Gallinago media]
2: small long-billed American woodcock; prized as a game bird
[syn:
American woodcock,
Philohela minor]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Woodcock snipe
Snipe
\Snipe\, n. [OE. snipe; akin to D. snep, snip, LG. sneppe,
snippe, G. schnepfe, Icel. sn[=i]pa (in comp.), Dan. sneppe,
Sw. sn["a]ppa a sanpiper, and possibly to E. snap. See
Snap,
Snaffle.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game
birds of the family
Scolopacid[ae], having a long,
slender, nearly straight beak.
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Note: The common, or whole, snipe (
Gallinago c[oe]lestis)
and the great, or double, snipe (
G. major), are the
most important European species. The Wilson's snipe
(
G. delicata) (sometimes erroneously called
English snipe
) and the gray snipe, or dowitcher (
Macrohamphus griseus
), are well-known American species.
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2. A fool; a blockhead. [R.] --Shak.
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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.
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Woodcock
\Wood"cock`\, n. [AS. wuducoc.]
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1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of long-billed
limicoline birds belonging to the genera
Scolopax and
Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits,
and are highly esteemed as game birds.
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Note: The most important species are the European (
Scolopax rusticola
) and the American woodcock (
Philohela minor
), which agree very closely in appearance and
habits.
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2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.]
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If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see
you
Run your neck into the noose, and cry,
“A
woodcock!” --Beau. & Fl.
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Little woodcock.
(a) The common American snipe.
(b) The European snipe.
Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish.
Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (
Asio brachyotus).
Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus
Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines.
Woodcock snipe. See under
Snipe.
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