Snipe Definition

snīp
sniped, snipes, sniping
noun
snipes
Any of various shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) with a long, slender, flexible bill used in probing for food, esp. a genus (Gallinago) living chiefly in marshy places.
Webster's New World
A shot from a hidden position.
Webster's New World
The butt of a cigar or cigarette.
Webster's New World

A fool; a blockhead.

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(naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
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verb
sniped, snipes, sniping
To shoot from a hidden position, as at individuals of an enemy force.
Webster's New World
To hunt or shoot snipe.
Webster's New World
To direct an attack (at someone) in a sly or underhanded way.
Webster's New World
To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid at the last possible moment.
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Noun

Singular:
snipe
Plural:
snipes

Origin of Snipe

  • The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English probably from Old Norse -snīpa (as in mȳrisnīpa marsh snipe)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English "type of bird", from Old Norse -snipa, in myrisnipa (“moor snipe")

    From Wiktionary

Snipe Sentence Examples

  • The stork is seen for about 170 days, the house-swallow 160, the snow-goose 260, the snipe 220.

  • Of small game, hares, jungle fowl, peacocks, partridges, snipe, woodcock, wild ducks and geese, and green pigeons are numerous in the tarai, and jungle fowl and pheasants in the hills.

  • Pheasants, ducks, geese and snipe are abundant, and Dr C. Collingwood in his Naturalist's Rambles in the China Seas mentions .Ardea prasinosceles and other species of herons, several species of fly-catchers, kingfishers, shrikes and larks, the black drongo, the Cotyle sinensis and the Prinia sonitans.

  • The woods are well stocked with red and roe deer, wild boar, hares, rabbits, pheasants, woodcock and snipe.

  • Of game birds the most characteristic is the partridge (ruffed grouse), exclusively a woodland bird; the Wilson's snipe and the woodcock are not uncommon in favourable localities, and several species of ducks are found especially in the bays and marshes near the coast during the seasons of migration.

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