sandpiper

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Etymology

From sand +‎ piper.

a pectoral sandpiper
(Calidris melanotos)

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Noun

sandpiper (plural sandpipers)

  1. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:
      Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs (setting up the sandpipers[.]

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