woodcock : Idioms & Phrases

Index

american woodcock

  • noun small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
    Philohela minor; American woodcock.
WordNet

eurasian woodcock

  • noun short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock
    Scolopax rusticola.
WordNet

Little woodcock

  • . (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe.
Webster 1913

scotch woodcock

  • noun creamy scrambled eggs on toast spread with anchovy paste
WordNet

sea woodcock

Sea" wood"cock`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The bar-tailed godwit.
Webster 1913

Sea woodcock fish

  • the bellows fish.
Webster 1913

Woodcock owl

  • the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus).
Webster 1913

Woodcock shell

  • the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines.
Webster 1913

Woodcock snipe

  • noun Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe
    Gallinago media; great snipe.
  • noun small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
    Philohela minor; American woodcock.
WordNet
  • . See under Snipe.
Webster 1913