Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the redshank, Totanus calidris, and hence of other species of the same genus. See Totanus.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See tattler.

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

  • noun Any bird of the genus Totanus; a tattler.

Etymologies

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French gambette or Italian gambetta.

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Examples

  • Next you know next to nothing about me, and yet you have run the gambet of placing into question my understanding of the Faith, and now my patriotist.

    Archbishop Censures Clinton Stop de Brantigny........................ 2008

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