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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sandpiper; a tiltup or tip-up; the spotted sandpiper, Tringoides macularius: so called from the characteristic see-saw motion of the hind parts. See cut under
Tringoides .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under
sandpiper .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bird, the spotted sandpiper.
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