jack-snipe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several shore birds, as the pectoral sandpiper, Pisobia maculata, and, especially, Wilson's snipe, Capella delicata.

Quotations

1795

Jack Snipes . . . visit Hudson's Bay in Summer in considerable numbers.

1910

I shot at a jack-snipe in the sleugh to-day, but I missed him.

1928

Wilson's Snipe. Jack Snipe . . . Gallinago delicata.

1940

Jacksnipe move through their haunts . . . always as solitary birds. . . .

1956

Almost any shore bird may be called a snipe or jacksnipe.