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sandpiper |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas}, {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family {Tringid[ae]}. Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, or Tringoides hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}. {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pride \Pride\, n. [Cf. AS lamprede LL lampreda E. lamprey.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); -- called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sandpiper n : any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call closely related to the plovers
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