snipe's Usage Examples:

The first platoon to get ashore made to the right toward the shore and silenced a party of snipers near No.

Specialities of the reserve: Tussock sedge, bog pimpernel, bog pimpernel, bogbean, southern marsh orchid, reed bunting, snipe, grass snake.

Among the game birds are quails ("Bob White"), "partridges" (ruffed grouse), ducks, geese, woodcocks, snipes and plovers.

McQueenii, Gray); woodcock, snipe, pigeon, many kinds of goose, duck, 'c.

Maybe with snipers and things now isnât the best time to traverse the ocean but this was a potent performance.

"I want to stop him before he screws up a real missing person case by sending the police off on a snipe hunt," he snarled.

There is a soldier in the tower with a sniper rifle.

Of birds, eagles, vultures, hawks, owls and quails are common; snipe, curlews, plovers, storks and herons frequent the marshy parts; and the ostrich the desert.

In Turner's days (1544) it was worth three times as much as a snipe, and at the same peroid Belon said of it - " C'est vn Oyseau es delices des Francoys.

Wild geese and ducks, grouse, partridges, snipe, woodcock, quails, widgeons and teal are plentiful all over the country, and in recent years preserves have been largely stocked with pheasants.

Many species of ducks are also still found; and the reed-bird (bobolink), " partridge " (elsewhere called quail or " Bob White "), ruffed grouse (elsewhere called partridge), woodcock, snipe, plover and Carolina rail still abound.

Game birds consist of teal and wild duck, snipe, jungle fowl and peacock.

Ducks, divers, geese, gulls, all the Russian species of snipes and sandpipers (Limicolae, Tringae), swarm on the marshes of the tundras and on the crags of the Lapland coast.

Synonyms:

shorebird, great snipe, wisp, Limnocryptes minima, jacksnipe, half snipe, Gallinago gallinago, Gallinago media, dowitcher, limicoline bird, Wilson"s snipe, whole snipe, woodcock snipe, Gallinago gallinago delicata, shore bird,

Antonyms:

cool, evolution, finish, end, refrain,