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]: Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [So called from its piping cry when disturbed.] (Zool.) (a) The common European sandpiper. (b) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [Native name in Victoria.] A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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