jacksnipe

American  

[jak-snahyp] / ˈdʒækˌsnaɪp /

Or jack snipe

noun

plural

jacksnipe,

plural

jacksnipes

1. Also called half snipe.  a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.

2. any of several related snipes.

3. pectoral sandpiper.

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jacksnipe British  

/ ˈdʒækˌsnaɪp /

noun

1. a small Eurasian short-billed snipe, Lymnocryptes minima

2. any of various similar birds, such as the pectoral sandpiper

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Etymology

Origin of jacksnipe

First recorded in 1655–65; jack ¹ + snipe

Example Sentences

The rail is rarely seen; but the jacksnipe is very plentiful in the late fall and up to mid-winter, when the great majority of them depart for warmer marshes.

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A man might as well gun up the corkscrew flight of a jacksnipe as to pour lead through the gaps in a side-steppin' freak like that.

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His place just now is filled by the jacksnipe, which flutters up from every boggy place and comes to bag in a condition anything but suggestive of short commons.

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In the swamp I found snipe, Scolopax Wilsonii: they call them here jacksnipe.

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Wireworms and their adult forms, click beetles, are devoured by the northern phalarope, woodcock, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover.

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