jack snipen.
/ˈdʒak snʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈdʒæk ˌsnaɪp/ 1. A small migratory snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus, breeding in northern Eurasia.Formerly believed to be the male of the common snipe.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > lymnocryptes minimus (jack snipe)
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Jack1824
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa macularia
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe)
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jack snipe1664
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin)
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jack snipe1664
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plover's page1771
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red-backed sandpiper1813
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plover's provider1892
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1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 109 Provide me then the Chines fry'd, and the Salmon Calver'd..and an Assembly of Woodcocks, and Jack-snipes.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. xii. 305 The North-Country Dunlin..is about the bigness of the Jack-Snipe.
1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 81 (heading) The Jack-Snipe or Judcock.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 122 The Jacksnipe... Its weight is less than two ounces, inferior by half to that of the snipe.
1813 P. Hawker Diary 21 Dec. (1893) I. 89 Killing..1 jack snipe and 5 ox-birds.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 921/1 The Wilson's snipe..very closely resembles the jack snipe of Europe.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 880 We think of the grey plover, the interesting turnstone, the jack-snipe.., and the bar-tailed godwit.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Plover's page, the jack snipe.
2012 Birdwatch Apr. 16/3 Several Jack Snipe may be flushed by the tide.
2. Any of several other waders, as (in Britain) the dunlin, Calidris alpina, and (in North America) the pectoral sandpiper, C. melanotos. Now rare.
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1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 277 The Pectoral Sandpiper,..sometimes called Jack-Snipe, Fat-Bird, Meadow-Snipe, Short-Neck, &c.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 193 Dunlin (Tringa alpina)... Jack snipe (Shetland Isles).
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 233/1 Pectoral Sandpiper... [Also called] Jack Snipe; Grass-bird; Meadow Snipe.
1976 Montana 26 75/2 After a good rain, it was a quagmire which would bog down a jack-snipe with a shingle on each foot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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