Read full poem →Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,
Hunting quail and snipe.
At Thompson’s Lake the trigger of my gun
Dictionary Entry
Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. snipeshooting snipehunt snipesnipe commonsnipe jacksnipe greatsnipe painted
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Poetry examples for “snipe”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I wondered where he'd been; then heard him shout,
"They snipe like hell! O Dickie, don't go out" ...
I fell asleep ... next morning he was dead;
Read full poem →My brain it shall be your occult convolutions!
Root of wash’d sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded
duplicate eggs! it shall be you!