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Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid'91. Note: The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper , called also

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Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid'91. Note: The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper , called also browback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ; the purple sandpiper (T.maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ; the semipalmated sandpiper ; the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper , and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis, or tringoides, hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.

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    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
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    Farthest north.
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    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • GENERABILITY
    Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
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  • GALLIASS
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