Woodcock Definition

wo͝odkŏk
woodcocks
noun
A migratory European shorebird (Scolopax rusticola) with short legs and a long bill, of the same family (Scolopacidae) as snipe: it is hunted as game.
Webster's New World
A smaller game bird (Scolopax minor) of the same family that frequents bogs and swampy places of E North America.
Webster's New World
A fool; dupe.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Woodcock

Noun

Singular:
woodcock
Plural:
woodcocks

Woodcock Sentence Examples

  • The ruffed grouse (or "partridge") is the most common of game birds, but woodcock, ducks and geese are quite common.

  • Partridges, woodcock, snipe, &c., are among the game-birds; but all kinds of small birds are also shot for food, and their number is thus kept down, while many members of the migratory species are caught by traps in the foothills on the south side of the Alps, especially near the Lake of Como, on their passage.

  • Of birds some species of parrakeet, the "mandarin" blackbird, and the woodcock are not found in the rest of Indo-China.

  • Parallels may be found in "Prairie oyster," the yolk of an egg with vinegar, pepper, &c. added; or "Scotch woodcock," a savoury of buttered eggs on anchovy toast.

  • Snipe, woodcock, ducks and rails, in vast flocks, haunt the banks of the Drina and Save; while the crane, pelican, wild-swan and wild-goose are fairly plentiful.

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