noun
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a small Eurasian short-billed snipe, Lymnocryptes minima
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any of various similar birds, such as the pectoral sandpiper
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Origin of jacksnipe
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Other new zones with their dates for hunting duck, geese, coot and jacksnipe are as follows: Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course there's the fun of it—the 'pats,' the quail, the jacksnipe, the 'cock.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth
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.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
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.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange
Besides the 118 ducks there were 50 jacksnipe and 68 fine large wild pigeons.
From Out of Doors—California and Oregon by Graves, J. A.
The jolter-head thought it was a sandpiper, but he wasn't much further out than you with your jacksnipes.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
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