Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lesser snipe or half-snipe, Scolopax or Gallinago gallinula. Also called
judcock , juddock. - noun The common American snipe, Gallinago wilsoni.
- noun The pectoral sandpiper, Tringa maculata.
- noun The dunlin or purre, Tringa alpina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small European snipe (
Limnocryptes gallinula ); -- called alsojudcock ,jedcock ,juddock ,jed , andhalf snipe . - noun A small American sandpiper (
Tringa maculata ); -- called alsopectoral sandpiper , andgrass snipe .
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- noun
Lymnocryptes minimus , amigratory smallstocky wader , the smallest of thesnipes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small short-billed Old World snipe
- noun American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting
Etymologies
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Examples
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That gun accounted for many squirrels, coons, rabbits, doves, quail and jacksnipe the first few years of my hunting career.
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That gun accounted for many squirrels, coons, rabbits, doves, quail and jacksnipe the first few years of my hunting career.
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BTW If you think doves are hard try hunting jacksnipe around a marsh.
Feathers vs Clay 2008
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My best stretch back then was 17 jacksnipe with 25 shells.
Feathers vs Clay 2008
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The decline of the jacksnipe in southern Wisconsin.
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When you are through work it is nearly dark and you can ride out on the boulevard by the sea and throw clay targets with a hand trap against this gale and they will dip and jump and rise into strange angles like a jacksnipe in the wind.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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How the jacksnipe rose with a jump and you hit him on the second swerve and had to wade out into a slough after him and brought him in wet, holding him by the bill, as proud as a bird dog, and you can remember all the snipe since in many places.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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How the jacksnipe rose with a jump and you hit him on the second swerve and had to wade out into a slough after him and brought him in wet, holding him by the bill, as proud as a bird dog, and you can remember all the snipe since in many places.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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When you are through work it is nearly dark and you can ride out on the boulevard by the sea and throw clay targets with a hand trap against this gale and they will dip and jump and rise into strange angles like a jacksnipe in the wind.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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How the jacksnipe rose with a jump and you hit him on the second swerve and had to wade out into a slough after him and brought him in wet, holding him by the bill, as proud as a bird dog, and you can remember all the snipe since in many places.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
chained_bear commented on the word jacksnipe
Another name is judcock.
August 26, 2008