3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n. 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas}, {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family {Tringidae}. [1913 Webster] Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({Tringa alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis}), 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 hypoleucus} syn. {Tringoides hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. [1913 Webster] {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}. {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Peeper \Peep"er\, n. 1. A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird. [1913 Webster] 2. One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. [1913 Webster] Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers? --J. Webster. [1913 Webster] 3. The eye; as, to close the peepers. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: peeper n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others [syn: {voyeur}, {Peeping Tom}] 2: an informal term refering to the eye 3: an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
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