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Definition of Half snipe
1. Noun. A small short-billed Old World snipe.
Generic synonyms: Snipe
Group relationships: Genus Limnocryptes, Limnocryptes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Snipe
Literary usage of Half snipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"The weight being only half that of the snipe, the French call these " deux pour
un," and we the Jack-snipe, snipe-knave or half-snipe. ..."
2. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1858)
"The weight being only half that of the snipe, the French call these " deux pour
un," and we the Jack-snipe, snipe-knave or half-snipe. ..."
3. English Compound Words and Phrases: A Reference List, with Statement of by Francis Horace Teall (1892)
"... a. and , half=principal half=read half=relief half=round half=royal half=seas=over
half=shell half=shift half=sister half=snipe half=sole half=sovereign ..."
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