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Shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
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dowitcher
Word definitions for dowitcher in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The red-breasted or gray snipe ( Macrorhamphus griseus ); -- called also brownback , and grayback .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The three '''dowitchers ''' are medium-sized long-billed wading birds in the genus Limnodromus . The genus name is Ancient Greek from limne , "marsh" and dromos , "racer". The English name is from Iroquois . 1841 They resemble godwits in body and bill shape, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus ''Limnodromus'' of the family Scolopacidae.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
Usage examples of dowitcher.
I shot a short-billed dowitcher on one leg in still water, his reflection underneath him.
A couple of dowitchers already awake, foraging along the edge of the water.
Above the boy's head flew laughing gulls and ring-billed gulls and sandwich terns, and around his bare legs skittered sanderlings and dowitchers and plovers.