English words for 'A sandpiper.'
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noun
- smallest American sandpiper
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
noun
- A bagpiper.
- A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- A musician who plays a pipe.
- A baby pigeon.
- A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
- someone who plays the bagpipe
noun
- A sand perch (Diplectrum)
- Any member of the subfamily Holocentrinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.
- very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
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- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- A shallow in a body of water.
- Any large number of persons or things.
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- a stretch of shallow water
- a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- a large group of fish
verb
noun
- (colloquial, birdwatching) Ellipsis of sandpiper.
- (uncountable, figurative) "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom):
- (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- (countable) A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- An excuse for tears.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other mass of sand.
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- fortitude and determination
- a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
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verb
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- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
noun
- smallest American sandpiper
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
noun
- A bagpiper.
- A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- A musician who plays a pipe.
- A baby pigeon.
- A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
- someone who plays the bagpipe
noun
- A sand perch (Diplectrum)
- Any member of the subfamily Holocentrinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.
- very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
noun
- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- A shallow in a body of water.
- Any large number of persons or things.
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- a stretch of shallow water
- a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- a large group of fish
verb
noun
- (colloquial, birdwatching) Ellipsis of sandpiper.
- (uncountable, figurative) "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom):
- (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- (countable) A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- An excuse for tears.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other mass of sand.
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- fortitude and determination
- a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
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verb
noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
verb
noun
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