Snipe
[snaɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a gunshot from a concealed location.
(noun.) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks.
(verb.) hunt or shoot snipe.
Checked by Estes--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
(n.) A fool; a blockhead.
Checker: Susie
Definition
n. the name of a genus (Gallinago) and of a family (Scolopacid) of birds order Grall having a long straight flexible bill frequenting marshy places all over Europe: a fool: a simpleton: (U.S.) a half-smoked cigar picked up on the street: a long bill or account.
v.i. to pick off stealthily by a long rifle-shot as from the surrounding hills into a camp &c.—n. Snīp′ing the foregoing practice.
Typist: Lycurgus
Examples
- Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flush a tiger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What a snipe you were in that matter, Eustacia! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hush, pray--pink eyes--fancy dress--little boy--nonsense--ensign 97th-- Honourable Wilmot Snipe--great family--Snipes--very. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sordo looked away and down the slope at where a cavalryman was sniping from behind a boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is the work of that fellow they call Snipes, I am sure, said Jane. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You fellows dig here, said Snipes, indicating a spot beneath the tree. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That part of it we know up to the sailing of the Arrow after the murder of Snipes, and the burial of his body above the treasure chest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When they had a trench of ample size to bury the chest, Tarrant suggested that they enlarge it and inter Snipes' body on top of the chest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Hush, pray--pink eyes--fancy dress--little boy--nonsense--ensign 97th-- Honourable Wilmot Snipe--great family--Snipes--very. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If for Snipes, then our ape friend is a friend indeed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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