Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A collective name of numerous small wading birds or shore-birds, chiefly of the snipe and plover families, which frequent the muddy shores of the bays and estuaries along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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Long ago I knew an old market gunner of eastern Long Island who shot ducks and bay-birds for a living.
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