Woodcock

Word WOODCOCK
Character 8
Hyphenation wood cock
Pronunciations /ˈwʊd.kɒk/

Definitions and meanings of "Woodcock"

What do we mean by woodcock?

Any of several woodland birds of the genus Scolopax found in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, having brownish plumage, short legs, and a long bill. The woodcocks are in the same family as the sandpipers and other shorebirds. noun

One of two distinct birds of the family Scolopacidæ, closely related to the true snipe (Gallinago). noun

The large black pileated woodpecker, or logcock, Hylotomus (or Ceophlæus) pileatus. See cut under pileated. noun

In conchology, a woodcock-shell: more fully called thorny woodcock. Also called Venus'scomb. noun

A simpleton: in allusion to the facility with which the European woodcock al lows itself to be taken in springes or in nets set for it in the glades. noun

The American woodcock, Philohela. minor: a book-name. noun

A woodcock-shell, as Murex haustellum. noun

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. noun

Fig.: A simpleton. noun

The European snipe. noun

The bellows fish. noun

The short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). noun

The shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. noun

See under Snipe. noun

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage. noun

Game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe noun

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

A simpleton.

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The word "woodcock" in example sentences

Why can you be assured that snipe, grouse, partridge, pheasant or woodcock is what it is, but a chicken is more likely to be a jellied flying rat? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The 28 shines brightest at modest ranges: in woodcock thickets, quail piney woods, and dove fields, and on skeet and five-stand setups. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“These little brown snipe you call woodcock, ” he began; “we bagged nine brace, d’you see? ❋ Unknown (1899)

I would send him sometimes snipe or golden plover from Kiltartan bog or woodcock from the hazel woods at Coole, hoping to tempt him with something that might better nourish the worn body than the little custard pudding that was used to serve him for his two days 'dinner, because of that "horrible dyspepsia" that often makes those who have been long in prison live starving after their release, mocked with the sight of food. ❋ Unknown (1913)

The little bird in the middle with the long beak has been known as the woodcock, but I notice it has nostrils in the end of that beak--? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

While the woodcock is an easy bird to hit, with a soft flight like an owl, and if you do miss him he will probably pitch down and give you another shot. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)

If my childhood memories of country life are still reliable, a woodcock is a shy creature with a soft, mothlike flight (la bécasse des bois in French), whereas le coq de bruyère is a capercailzie or grouse, a species noted for the flamboyant mating behavior of the male birds. ❋ Weightman, John (1984)

The woodcock is a very handsome bird with its dark mottled brown plumage, long bill, and large, full, black eyes. ❋ W. Houghton (N/A)

Still better sport is offered by a variety of solitary snipe as big as a small woodcock, which is plentiful in this country, and which is flown at with a very small, agile, and highly-trained hawk with an almost red tail. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Ordinarily the woodcock is a very dull, stupid bird, with a look almost idiotic, and is seldom seen except by the sportsman or the tramper along marshy brooks. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

The woodcock is a melancholy bird, and somewhat misanthropic. ❋ Henri De Crignelle (1840)

"And the feather," said Alice, whom fear had rendered apprehensive of slight tokens, "means flight -- and a woodcock is a bird of passage." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

(A bird called the woodcock, with 360-degree vision, would be good at it.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The woodcock is a living refutation of the theory that the utility of a game bird is to serve as a target, or to pose gracefully on a slice of toast," he wrote. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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