If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck
into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"
Beau. & Fl.
Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe.
— Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. — Woodcock owl, the short-eared
owl (Asio brachyotus). — Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks
of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. —
Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe.