Definition of "woodcock" []

• 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. (noun)

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• "Why can you be assured that snipe, grouse, partridge, pheasant or woodcock is what it is, but a chicken is more likely to be a jellied flying rat?"
• "The 28 shines brightest at modest ranges: in woodcock thickets, quail piney woods, and dove fields, and on skeet and five-stand setups."
• "“These little brown snipe you call woodcock, ” he began; “we bagged nine brace, d’you see?"