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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

The red-breasted or gray snipe (

Macrorhamphus griseus

); – called also

brownback

, and

grayback

A long-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus.

dowitcher ‎(plural dowitchers)

Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.

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