Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sandpiper or some similar bird; a shore-bird.
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Examples
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A ball stuck full of sand-bird shot came tearing into
The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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A ball stuck full of sand-bird shot came tearing into Fort Slatter.
The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill (Chapter XIII of The Story of a Bad Boy) 1869
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