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woodcock

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wood·cock  (wdkk)
n. pl. woodcock or wood·cocks
Either of two related game birds, Scolopax rusticola of the Old World or Philohela minor of North America, having brownish plumage, short legs, and a long bill.
woodcock [ˈwʊdˌkɒk]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an Old World game bird, Scolopax rusticola, resembling the snipe but larger and having shorter legs and neck: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc.), order Charadriiformes
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a related North American bird, Philohela minor
3. Obsolete a simpleton
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.woodcockwoodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola - short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock
American woodcock, Philohela minor, woodcock snipe - small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
woodcock noun
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collective noun fall
Translations
woodcock [ˈwʊdkɒk] N → chocha f perdiz
woodcock [ˈwʊdkɒk] [woodcock] (pl) n → bécasse f
woodcock [ˈwʊdˌkɒk] n → beccaccia
woodcock [ˈwʊdˌkɒk] n → beccaccia


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Turtle, salmon, tautog, woodcock, boiled turkey, South-Down mutton, pig, roast-beef, have vanished, or exist only in fragments, with lukewarm potatoes, and gravies crusted over with cold fat.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
For them the earliest salmon is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood in his remotest haunts, and the turtle comes from the far Pacific Islands to be gobbled up in soup.
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