Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. - - Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe.
-- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea
snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe
hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. --
Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers.
-- Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock. -- Woodcock snipe, the
great snipe.
Snipe"bill` (?), n. 1. A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
2. A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle. [Local,
U.S.]
Snipe"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) A long, slender
deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.