jacksnipe

American  

[jak-snahyp] / ˈdʒækˌsnaɪp /

Or jack snipe

noun

plural

jacksnipe,

plural

jacksnipes

1. Also called half snipe.  a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.

2. any of several related snipes.

3. pectoral sandpiper.

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jacksnipe British  

/ ˈdʒækˌsnaɪp /

noun

1. a small Eurasian short-billed snipe, Lymnocryptes minima

2. any of various similar birds, such as the pectoral sandpiper

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Etymology

Origin of jacksnipe

First recorded in 1655–65; jack ¹ + snipe

Example Sentences

Other new zones with their dates for hunting duck, geese, coot and jacksnipe are as follows: Oct.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course there's the fun of it—the 'pats,' the quail, the jacksnipe, the 'cock.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

Wireworms and their adult forms, click beetles, are devoured by the northern phalarope, woodcock, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

In the swamp I found snipe, Scolopax Wilsonii: they call them here jacksnipe.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

His place just now is filled by the jacksnipe, which flutters up from every boggy place and comes to bag in a condition anything but suggestive of short commons.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various