Woodcock definitions

Woodcock

1) US game bird 2) Apple cultivar 3) English surname 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Game bird 7) Limicoline bird 8) Shore bird 9) Shorebird 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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Woodcock

1) Whistlingsnipe
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Woodcock

The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of t...
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Woodcock

• (n.) Fig.: A simpleton. • (n.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
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woodcock

any of five species of squat-bodied, long-billed birds of damp, dense woodlands, allied to the snipes in the waterbird family Scolopacidae (order ... [3 related articles]
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woodcock

1. <ornithology> Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. ... The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely...
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Woodcock

Wood'cock` noun [ Anglo-Saxon wuducoc .] 1. (Zoology) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela . They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. » The most import...
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Woodcock

The woodcock (Scolopax rusticula) is a British game bird belonging to the sub-family Scolopacinae, and closely related to the snipe. The colouring is a combination of brown, grey and buff with black markings and there are two transverse buff stripes at the back of the head. The birds frequent woods, especially marshy woods and feed upon worms, inse...
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Woodcock

HMS Woodcock was a British Black Swan Class escort sloop of 1250 tons displacement launched in 1942. She was armed with six 4-inch dual-purpose guns and ten smaller guns. Two 3-drum type boilers provided a top speed of 19.25 knots and she carried a complement of 180.
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Woodcock

Woodcock is slang for a fool, an idiot.
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woodcock

[n] - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
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woodcock

noun game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
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woodcock

Either of two species of wading birds, genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, which have barred plumage and long bills, and live in wet woodland areas. They belong to the long-billed section of the snipes, order Charadriiformes
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