Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tringa alpina: same as
dunlin . - noun The knot, a sandpiper, Tringa canutus.
- noun The snipe-fish, Centriscus scolopax.
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Examples
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I also saw a sea-snipe, or trumpet-fish, but, oho, without a tooth!
Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever
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At the sound of his gun the birds of the beach -- sea-snipe, curlew, plover -- showed the whites of their wings for an instant and fell to feeding again.
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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