Word Finder - snipe

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Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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A fool; a blockhead.

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A shot fired from a concealed place.

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(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.

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(ice hockey slang) A goal.

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To hunt snipe.

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To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

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(by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.

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To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.

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To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.

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(ice hockey slang) To score a goal.

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To move the ball quickly in a different direction.

The stork is seen for about 170 days, the house-swallow 160, the snow-goose 260, the snipe 220.

Of small game, hares, jungle fowl, peacocks, partridges, snipe, woodcock, wild ducks and geese, and green pigeons are numerous in the tarai, and jungle fowl and pheasants in the hills.

Pheasants, ducks, geese and snipe are abundant, and Dr C. Collingwood in his Naturalist's Rambles in the China Seas mentions .Ardea prasinosceles and other species of herons, several species of fly-catchers, kingfishers, shrikes and larks, the black drongo, the Cotyle sinensis and the Prinia sonitans.

Game birds include ducks, geese, plovers, snipe, loons, grebes, terns, rails, the woodcock and the ruffed grouse; quails are scarce except on Long Island, where a number or young birds are liberated each year, and by the same mea 's a supply of pheasants is maintained in some parts of the state.

Among other game birds are prairie-chickens, ducks, geese, swan, brant, sandhill crane and snipe.

The fauna includes wild boars, wolves, foxes, badgers, partridges, quails and snipe.

The game birds include the ruffed grouse, quail and English pheasant (which have increased rapidly under protection), besides woodcock, snipe, many species of ducks and a few Canada geese.

The variegated plumage of the Snipe is subject to no inconsiderable variation, especially in the extent of dark markings on the belly, flanks, and axillaries, while examples are occasionally seen in which no trace of white, and hardly any of buff or grey, is visible, the place of these tints being taken by several shades of chocolate-brown.

It visits Great Britain every year at the close of summer, but in very small numbers, and is almost always seen singly - not uncommonly in places where no one could expect to find a Snipe.

The birds include the ostrich, marabout, vultures, kites, hawks, ground hornbill, great bustard, guinea fowl, partridge, lesser bustard, quail, snipe, duck, widgeon, teal, geese of various kinds, paraquets, doves, blue, bronze and green pigeons, and many others.

Of game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.

There are deer (at least five species), boars, bears, antelopes, beavers, otters, badgers, tiger-cats, marten, an inferior sable, striped squirrels, &c. Among birds there are black eagles, peregrines (largely used in hawking), and, specially protected by law, turkey bustards, three varieties of pheasants, swans, geese, common and spectacled teal, mallards, mandarin ducks white and pink ibis, cranes, storks, egrets, herons, curlews, pigeons, doves, nightjars, common and blue magpies, rooks, crows, orioles, halcyon and blue kingfishers, jays, nut-hatches, redstarts, snipe, grey shrikes, hawks, kites, &c. But, pending further observations, it is not possible to say which of the smaller birds actually breed in Korea and which only make it a halting-place in their annual migrations.

The most important are eagles, kites, vultures, falcons, owls, horn-bills, cranes, pheasants (notably the argus, fire-back and peacock-pheasants), partridges, ravens, crows, parrots, pigeons, woodpeckers, doves, snipe, quail and swallows.

Wild game is plentiful; pheasants, partridges, snipe and water-fowl of many descriptions make the country a tempting field for the sportsman.

Characteristic types common to the whole country are the teal, snipe, golden plover and wagtail.

There are numerous species in these sheltered channels, inlets and sounds of geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, ibises, bitterns, red-beaks, curlew, snipe, plover and moorhens.

Other game birds include the francolin, quail, guineafowl, sand-grouse, snipe, wild duck, wild goose, widgeon, teal, plover and rail.

Innumerable aquatic birds haunt the banks of the Save, Danube and Drina, and the lower reaches of the Timok and Morava; among them being pelicans, cranes, grey and white herons, and many other kinds of waders, besides wild geese, ducks, rail and snipe.

The principal animals and birds in South Carolina are deer, rabbits, squirrels, opossums, musk-rats, raccoons, minks, geese, ducks, wild turkeys, " partridge " (quail or bobwhite), woodcock and snipe.

I carry a rifle now – like you told me to, she concluded with a final snipe.

Even a body without a heart Can feel this sad beauty; Snipe take wing from the marsh In the autumn dusk.

Combe haven was a little better with a stonechat, snipe and several fieldfares present.

Waders present included greenshank, green and wood sandpiper and snipe as well as eight black-tailed godwits on the ARC pit.

Here they are joined by returning Snipe, Lapwings and a few greenshanks - one of Sutherland's specialities.

In the damp grasslands, breeding waders have also been recorded lapwing, curlew and snipe.

Despite disturbance from cutting, the lowland bogs are important for breeding waders lapwing, snipe and curlew have been recorded.

Only a few breeding lapwing and snipe are recorded.

The love-song of the common jack snipe seemed not a whit less mysterious than partridge drumming.

The reserve is also home to a number of bird species including meadow pipit, snipe and skylark.

Moorland birds include red grouse, snipe, curlew, wheatear and whinchat as well as ring ouzel.

It is particularly noted for its populations of breeding snipe.

French birders had seen one Great snipe displaying from 19.00 till 19.30.

A minibus took them into Thurso where they found a suitable snipe named Kittiwake belonging to John Shearer.

An early evening wander round this area produced a couple of painted snipe on two occasions.

The day was relatively windy and the shooting tricky however a few snipe did find their way into the bag.

Get it if desired, then snipe the first wave of soldiers with normal guns.

The Bill area produced 28 song thrushes, 3 Snipe, 2 Fieldfares, a Lapwing, a Golden Plover and a Redwing.

The marsh was a site for Broad-billed Sandpiper and Jack Snipe, but neither was apparent during my brief visit.

The Humber Super Snipe Chassis had a wheelbase of 117.5 inches with ground clearance of 7 inches.

Depending on the time of year, game available includes woodcock, snipe, pheasant, hare and duck.

The unit's one-time ministerial minder, Mo Mowlam, has retired to snipe from the sidelines.

I carry a rifle now – like you told me to, she concluded with a final snipe.

On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.

Partridges, woodcock, snipe, &c., are among the game-birds; but all kinds of small birds are also shot for food, and their number is thus kept down, while many members of the migratory species are caught by traps in the foothills on the south side of the Alps, especially near the Lake of Como, on their passage.

They include, however, the snipe and military starling, which on account of its scarlet breast is locally known as the robin.

Several varieties of water-fowl, especially curlews, pelicans, gulls, ducks, terns, geese and snipe, are found in the vicinity of the lakes.

Snipe, woodcock, ducks and rails, in vast flocks, haunt the banks of the Drina and Save; while the crane, pelican, wild-swan and wild-goose are fairly plentiful.

Among game birds the bustard, guinea fowl, sand grouse (kata), blue rock, green pigeon, partridge, including a large chikor (akb) and a small species similar to the Punjab sisi; quail and several kinds of duck and snipe are met with.

In Turner's days (1544) it was worth three times as much as a snipe, and at the same peroid Belon said of it - " C'est vn Oyseau es delices des Francoys."

Among game-birds there are the quail (uzura), the heathcock (ezo-rachO), the ptarmigan (ezo-raicho or ezo-yama-doni), the woodcock (hodo-shigi), the snipe (ta-shigi) with two special species, the solitary snipe (yama-shigi) and the painted snipe (tama-shigi)and the pheasant (kiji).