Define Woodcock snipe using "exact" search strategy.
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| Source: gcide | Snipe \Snipe\, n. [OE. snipe; akin to D. snep, snip, LG. sneppe, snippe, G. schnepfe, Icel. sn[imac]pa (in comp.), Dan. sneppe, Sw. sn[aum]ppa a sanpiper, and possibly to E. snap. See {Snap}, {Snaffle}.] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family {Scolopacidae}, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. [1913 Webster]
Note: The common, or whole, snipe ({Gallinago coelestis}) and the great, or double, snipe ({Gallinago major}), are the most important European species. The Wilson's snipe ({Gallinago delicata}) (sometimes erroneously called {English snipe}) and the gray snipe, or dowitcher ({Macrohamphus griseus}), are well-known American species. [1913 Webster]
2. A fool; a blockhead. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
{Half snipe}, the dunlin; the jacksnipe.
{Jack snipe}. See {Jacksnipe}.
{Quail snipe}. See under {Quail}.
{Robin snipe}, the knot.
{Sea snipe}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Shore snipe}, any sandpiper.
{Snipe hawk}, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
{Stone snipe}, the tattler.
{Summer snipe}, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers.
{Winter snipe}. See {Rock snipe}, under {Rock}.
{Woodcock snipe}, the great snipe. [1913 Webster]

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| Source: gcide | Woodcock \Wood"cock`\, n. [AS. wuducoc.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Note: The most important species are the European ({Scolopax rusticola}) and the American woodcock ({Philohela minor}), which agree very closely in appearance and habits. [1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!" --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
{Little woodcock}. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe.
{Sea woodcock fish}, the bellows fish.
{Woodcock owl}, the short-eared owl ({Asio brachyotus}).
{Woodcock shell}, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus {Murex}, having a very long canal, with or without spines.
{Woodcock snipe}. See under {Snipe}. [1913 Webster]
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