WOODCOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodcock mean? 

• WOODCOCK (noun)
  The noun WOODCOCK has 1 sense:

1. game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

  Familiarity information: WOODCOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODCOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("woodcock" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodcock"):

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)

 Context examples 

There is a woodcock, I believe.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But we are more like to hawk at the Spanish woodcock than at the French heron, though certes it is rumored that Du Guesclin with all the best lances of France have taken service under the lions and towers of Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)