Meaning of SNIPE
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- [n] Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
- [v] attack verbally, in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- [v] shoot from a concealed position
- [v] hunt or shoot snipe
- [v] hunt snipe
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| | Synonyms: | | assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, sharpshoot |
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| | See Also: | | abuse, barrage, blackguard, blister, clapperclaw, claw, common snipe, criticise, criticize, dowitcher, fowl, Gallinago gallinago, Gallinago gallinago delicata, Gallinago media, great snipe, half snipe, hunt, hunt down, jacksnipe, limicoline bird, Limnocryptes minima, pick apart, rip, rubbish, run, shoot, shore bird, shorebird, shout, track down, vitriol, whang, whip, whole snipe, Wilson's snipe, wisp, woodcock snipe | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Snipe\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sniping}.]
1. To shoot or hunt snipe.
2. To shoot at detached men of an enemy's forces at long
range, esp. when not in action; -- often with at.
\Snipe\, v. t.
1. To shoot at (detached men of an enemy's force) at long
range, esp. when not in action.
2. To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in
skidding.
\Snipe\, n. [OE. snipe; akin to D. snep, snip, LG. sneppe,
snippe, G. schnepfe, Icel. sn[=i]pa (in comp.), Dan. sneppe,
Sw. sn["a]ppa a sanpiper, and possibly to E. snap. See
{Snap}, {Snaffle}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game
birds of the family {Scolopacid[ae]}, having a long,
slender, nearly straight beak.
Note: The common, or whole, snipe ({Gallinago c[oe]lestis})
and the great, or double, snipe ({G. major}), are the
most important European species. The Wilson's snipe
({G. delicata}) (sometimes erroneously called English
snipe) and the gray snipe, or dowitcher ({Macrohamphus
griseus}), are well-known American species.
2. A fool; a blockhead. [R.] --Shak.
{Half snipe}, the dunlin; the jacksnipe.
{Jack snipe}. See {Jacksnipe}.
{Quail snipe}. See under {Quail}.
{Robin snipe}, the knot.
{Sea snipe}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Shore snipe}, any sandpiper.
{Snipe hawk}, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
{Stone snipe}, the tattler.
{Summer snipe}, the dunlin; the green and the common European
sandpipers.
{Winter snipe}. See {Rock snipe}, under {Rock}.
{Woodcock snipe}, the great snipe.
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