SANDPIPERS
Noun
sandpipers
plural of sandpiper
Source: Wiktionary
SANDPIPER
Sand"pi`per, n.
1. (Zo\'94l.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds
belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera
of the family Tringid\'91.
Note: The most important North American species are the pestoral
sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also browback, grass snipe, and
jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (T.maritima: the red-breasted
sandpiper, or knot (T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper
(Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis
macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis),
and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland.
Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis, or tringoides,
hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and
summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called
sandpipers.
2. (Zo\'94l.)
Definition: A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under
Curlew.
– Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition