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Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
   1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
      game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
      {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
      {Tringidae}.
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   Note: The most important North American species are the
         pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also
         {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the
         red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
         ({Tringa alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
         maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
         canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
         pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
         ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper
         ({Tryngites subruficollis}), and the Bartramian
         sandpiper, or upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among
         the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
         ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
         ({Actitis hypoleucus} syn. {Tringoides hypoleucus}),
         called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet},
         and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and
         tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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   2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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   {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.

   {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.
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Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [So called from its piping cry when
   disturbed.] (Zool.)
   (a) The common European sandpiper.
   (b) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
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Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [Native name in Victoria.]
   A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines,
   consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a
   flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is
   about two feet long.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]