| Noun | 1.woodcock snipe - Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipeGallinago media, great snipeGallinago, genus Capella, genus Gallinago, Capella - snipessnipe - Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | | 2. woodcock snipe - small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game birdAmerican woodcock, Philohela minorwoodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipegenus Philohela, Philohela - American woodcocks |