Dictionary Entry
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.
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Poetry examples for “woodcock”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I’ll tell you of more, and lie, so you will come:
Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some
May yet be there; and godwit if we can;
Read full poem →In the trees before the rain,
Not the woodcock's watery call,
Not the note the white-throat utters,
Read full poem →In the trees before the rain,
Not the woodcock’s watery call,
Not the note the white-throat utters,
Read full poem →Beside whose trunk the gipsy makes his bed.
Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig
Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread,
Read full poem →Here’s the “Three Jolly Pigeons” for ever!
Let some cry up woodcock or hare,
Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons;
Read full poem →He saw the partridge drum in the woods;
He heard the woodcock's evening hymn;
He found the tawny thrushes' broods;