snipes

The easiest way to hunt snipes is to climb up in a tree with a bucket and a stick. after you're up there start beating the side of the buckett while yelling snipe.

i was told to go out snipe hunting with a pillow case and make clucking sounds and they will run to you. 2009

The easiest way to hunt snipes is to climb up in a tree with a bucket and a stick. after you're up there start beating the side of the buckett while yelling snipe.

i was told to go out snipe hunting with a pillow case and make clucking sounds and they will run to you. 2009

And because bringing it to the public attention - whether that's in snipes, essays about a sort of people, or just plain-out bitching - would be a betrayal of the core trust.

Saddam Was A Very, Very Bad Man charity_whore 2004

But I’ve never heard one from you – only snipes from the sidelines.

Auld Lang Syne | clusterflock 2009

I've always wondered what "snipes" is meant to mean.

Life n Stuff Michael Turton 2006

I had drawn a division of "snipes" for my temporary brothers, boilermen and machinists who dwelt in the bowels of our ancient aircraft carrier, firing oil-burning furnaces and patching 1100-pound pressure leaks along the steam lines to keep the ship afloat and operational.

The Draft 1980

I had drawn a division of "snipes" for my temporary brothers, boilermen and machinists who dwelt in the bowels of our ancient aircraft carrier, firing oil-burning furnaces and patching 1100-pound pressure leaks along the steam lines to keep the ship afloat and operational.

The Draft 1980

I had drawn a division of "snipes" for my temporary brothers, boilermen and machinists who dwelt in the bowels of our ancient aircraft carrier, firing oil-burning furnaces and patching 1100-pound pressure leaks along the steam lines to keep the ship afloat and operational.

The Draft 1980

The lime may also be applied to cords, rods, and twigs, especially when it is intended to entangle the larger birds, such as snipes and fieldfares, and for this purpose the following mode may be adopted:

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Visions of the old days floated before him, days on the section with his crew of "snipes" back in the Honour Flag times.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various