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- Snipe - n. - Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- Snipe - n. - A fool; a blockhead.
- Snipebill - n. - A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
- Snipebill - n. - A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
- Snipefish - n. - The bellows fish.
- Snipefish - n. - A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.
- Jacksnipe - n. - A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
- Greenshank - n. - A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
- Willet - n. - A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
- Dowitcher - n. - The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
- Scolopacine - a. - Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family.
- Bellows fish - - A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
- Longbeak - n. - The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.