Crossword clues for woodcock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pileate \Pi"le*ate\, Pileated \Pi"le*a`ted\, a. [L. pileatus, fr. pileus a felt cap or hat.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several wading birds in the genus ''Scolopax'', of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage. 2 A simpleton.
WordNet
n. game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
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Woodcock
Wikipedia
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050.
Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of the genus Gallinago.
A Woodcock is one of seven very similar wading bird species in the genus Scolopax.
Woodcock or Woodcocks may also refer to:
Military- HMS Woodcock (1806), a schooner of the Royal Navy
- USS Woodcock (AM-14), a minesweeper of the US Navy
- Hawker Woodcock, a 1920s fighter of the Royal Air Force
- Woodcock, Pennsylvania, a borough in the United States
- Woodcock Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Woodcocks, New Zealand, a rural locality in the Rodney District
- Woodcock, British Columbia, Canada
- Woodcock Lake, a lake in Minnesota
- Woodcock Airport, near Woodcock, British Columbia
- Mr. Woodcock, a 2007 comedy film starring Seann William Scott and Billy Bob Thornton
- The psychological tests of the Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System or Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities
- Woodcock (surname), an English surname
- Woodcock (apple), a variety of English cider apple first described as early as the 17th century
Woodcock is a relatively uncommon English surname that seems to have originated from varied roots in the Early Middle Ages.
The Woodcock was one of the oldest described English varieties of cider apple. It originated in the West of England in the counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.
Usage examples of "woodcock".
Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of Hampshire, chitterlings of Taunton, and botargos of Cadiz, such as Pantagruel himself might have devoured.
One day we happened to be eating woodcock, and I could not help praising the dish in the style of the true gourmand.
Nathaniel Cadman called for stewed mutton, and goose, and woodcocks, while all around him these coxcombs took out their tobacco-boxes and spat upon the rushes.
Wild ducks, woodcocks, fieldfares, and curlews are coming now, besides thrushes, larks, and other small birds.
With it she had shot snipe in the Okavango Delta, sand grouse in the Karoo, duck and geese on the great Zambezi, grouse on the highland moors, and pheasant, woodcock and partridge on some of the great English estates to which she and the ambassador had been invited.
A rare eye, too, is his at the setting of a springe for woodcocks, or tracking a maukin on the snow.
Spread sippets of toast with butter and then with anchovy paste, and turn the woodcock upon them.
The three setters, Voyou, Gamin, and Mioche, were in fine feather,--David had killed a woodcock and a brace of grouse oven them that morning,--and they were thrashing about the spinney an short range when I came up, gun under arm and pipe lighted.
There were no blaeberries or crowberries in the woods, but there were many woodcock, and Bill had a shot with his catapult at a wicked old blackcock on a peat-stack.
The flavor put Audubon in mind of snipe or woodcock: not surprising, perhaps, when all three were so fond of earthworms.
Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese.
Life has joys for all men, but, I verily believe, it has no joy to compare to that of the moderate shot and earnest sportsman when he has just killed half a dozen driven partridges without a miss, or ten rocketing pheasants with eleven cartridges, or, better still, a couple of woodcock right and left.
Two hundred and fifty-three pheasants, eleven hares, fifty-two rabbits, three woodcock, sundry.
But we are more like to hawk at the Spanish woodcock than at the French heron, though certes it is rumored that Du Guesclin with all the best lances of France have taken service under the lions and towers of Castile.
When I had thus plainly intimated to him that he was to be my confessor, he felt obliged to speak with religious fervour, and his discourses seemed tolerable enough during a delicate and appetising repast, for we had snipe and woodcock.