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Sanny :: Sanny (n.) The sandpiper.

Knot :: Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne..

Sandpiper :: Sandpiper (n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe..

Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin..

Pride :: Pride (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper..

Water Junket :: Water junket () The common sandpiper.

Uplander :: Uplander (n.) The upland sandpiper.

Pectoral :: Pectoral (a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper..

Peep :: Peep (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla)..

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover..

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Dunlin :: Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America..

Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.

Water Laverock :: Water laverock () The common sandpiper.

Tringa :: Tringa (n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper..

Tringoid :: Tringoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family..

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

Sea Sandpiper :: Sea sandpiper () The purple sandpiper.

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