Definition of "sandpiper" [sand•pi•per]

• Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill with which it picks up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand. (noun)

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• "While I'm on the topic of recycling, I should mention, too, that the "sandpiper" product line introduced a year or so ago by our St. Catharines Ontario mill was the industry's first 100-per-cent post-consumer, non-de-inked writing paper."
• "He lost his wife to cancer, is a deep thinker – especially when out looking for a pectoral sandpiper or a black-tailed godwit – badly dressed, anti-consumerist and becomes convinced that, for all the police efforts, society is falling apart and "anarchy rules"."
• "Two species of wader, the curlew sandpiper and little stint, do not breed in Britain but pass through on their journey south."