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• snipe — [snīp] n. [ME snype < ON snipa (akin to Ger schnepfe) < Gmc * sneb , beak < base seen in SNIP, SNAP ] 1. pl. snipes or snipe any of various shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) with a long, slender, flexible bill used in probing for food,… …   English World dictionary

• bill — n Bill, beak, neb, nib denote the jaws of a bird together with their projecting horny covering. Bill is the general term and is used inclusively by ornithologists for such a structure; in popular usage, however, bill suggests a structure that is… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• snipe — ► NOUN (pl. same or snipes) ▪ a wading bird with brown camouflaged plumage and a long straight bill. ► VERB 1) shoot at someone from a hiding place at long range. 2) make a sly or petty verbal attack. DERIVATIVES sniper noun …   English terms dictionary

• snipe — snipelike, adj. sniper, n. /snuyp/, n., pl. snipes, (esp. collectively) snipe for 1, 2; v. sniped, sniping. n. 1. any of several long billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago… …   Universalium

• Snipe — Taxobox name = Snipes image width = 250px image caption = Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Scolopacidae subdivision ranks = Genera subdivision = *… …   Wikipedia

• Snipe incident — NOTOC The Snipe incident was a military incident that took place between Chile and Argentina during 1958 as a result of an undefined border line in the Beagle Channel.Both countries disagreed about the sovereign rights over the zone and the islet …   Wikipedia

• snipe — n. & v. n. (pl. same or snipes) any of various wading birds, esp. of the genus Gallinago, with a long straight bill and frequenting marshes. v. 1 intr. fire shots from hiding usu. at long range. 2 tr. kill by sniping. 3 intr. (foll. by at) make a …   Useful english dictionary

• snipe — [snʌɪp] noun (plural same or snipes) a wading bird with brown camouflaged plumage and a long straight bill. [Gallinago gallinago and other species.] verb 1》 shoot at someone from a hiding place at long range. 2》 make a sly or petty verbal attack …   English new terms dictionary

• South Island Snipe — Conservation status Extinct (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Giant Snipe — Taxobox name = Giant Snipe status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Scolopacidae genus = Gallinago species = G. undulata binomial = Gallinago undulata binomial… …   Wikipedia