\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}.