Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the red-breasted snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus.
  • noun A name of the great marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See dowitcher.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

Etymologies

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brown +‎ back

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