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English → English (gcide) Definition: brownback Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid[ae]. [1913 Webster] Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia ); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis ), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe . Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. [1913 Webster] Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt. [1913 Webster] Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback. [1913 Webster]