sea-snipen.
1. A local name for several of the sandpipers, as the dunlin, and the knot.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin)
stint1519
dunlin1531
oxbirda1547
sea-lark1602
purre1611
ox-eye1612
jack snipe1664
spar1668
pickerel1684
sand laverock1694
sandy laverock1710
sea-snipe1767
plover's page1771
sand lark1771
red-back1813
red-backed sandpiper1813
ebb-sleeper1837
oxybird1887
simpleton1890
plover's provider1892
sand-runner1894
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris canutus (knot)
knot1452
gnat1616
marl1699
sea-snipe1767
greyback1813
red-breasted sandpiper1813
grey plover1885
1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. 85 The least bird is a sea-snipe.
1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 700 The Dunlin is known under a variety of names, such as the Stint, the Ox-bird, the Sea-snipe, and the Purre.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 195 Knot (Tringa canutus)... Sea snipe (Dublin).
2. † a. A kind of gar-fish. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)
horn-fishOE
hornkeckc1425
garfishc1440
horn-stocka1485
green-bone1525
hornbeak1565
thorn-beak1570
horn-back1598
needlefish1601
spit-fish1601
sea-needle1603
ganefish1611
snacot-fish1611
greenbacka1682
bill-fisha1757
gar1767
sea-pike1769
saury1771
gar-pike1776
sea-snipea1832
mackerel guide1835
long-nose1836
gore-fish1839
gorebill1862
mackerel-scout1880
Long Tom1881
snipe-eel1882
a1832 J. F. South in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVIII. 624/2 There are three varieties of it [Esox Belone], one of which, found in North America, is called the Sea Snipe.
b. The trumpet-fish or snipe-fish, Centriscus scolopax, so called from its long tubular snout.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Centriscidae > member of Centriscus (snipe-fish) > centriscus scolopax (sea-snipe)
snipe-fish1668
trumpet-fish1668
bellows-fish1684
trumpeter1756
sea-snipe1836
woodcock-fish-
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 302 The Trumpet-fish. Sea-snipe... Centriscus scolopax.
1859–62 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. (1868) II. 132.
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