WADING BIRD Synonyms

• long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

• lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis

• United States writer (1871-1900)

• large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world

• United States poet (1899-1932)

• a small constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Phoenix

• stretch (the neck) so as to see better

• large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill

• any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season

• large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes

• large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill

• grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

• Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

• wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills

• any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

• any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

• Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

• a gunshot from a concealed location

• hunt or shoot snipe

• aim and shoot with great precision

• attack in speech or writing

• wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

• large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage

• any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food