snipen.

Brit.

/snʌɪp/, U.S.

/snaɪp/

Forms: Middle English–1500s snype, Middle English, 1500s snyppe (1600s snippe), 1500s sknipe, 1600s– snipe.

Etymology: Of doubtful origin: the Middle English type snīpe corresponds to a Scandinavian snīpa recorded in Icelandic mýrisnípa, Norwegian myr-, strandsnipa. It is not clear how this is related to Middle Dutch snippe (Dutch and West Frisian snip), Middle Low German and Low German (also older Danish) snippe, German dialect schnippe, and Middle Dutch sneppe (Dutch snep), Middle Low German and Low German sneppe (hence Danish sneppe, Swedish snäppa), Old High German snepha (snepfa) and snepho (German schnepfe, obsolete or dialect schneppe).

a. One or other of the limicoline birds of the genus Gallinago (formerly included in the Linnæan genus Scolopax), characterized by having a long straight bill, and by frequenting marshy places; esp. G. cœlestis or media, the common English species.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago

snipec1325

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe)

snitec725

snipec1325

brewea1475

mire-snipea1525

heather-bleater?1590

jack snipe1664

earn-bleater1754

weather-blate1802

full snipe1824

heather-bleat1824

shad-bird1879

gutter-snipe-

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 166 Un oysel ke est dist becaz, a snype (snyte).

c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 349 Barnakes and buturs and many billed snyppes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 461/2 Snype, or snyte, byrde, ibex.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 35 To wodcok, snype, curlue also, Þe betore in fere with hom schalle goo.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/1 Snyppe, a byrde, cigoigne.

1551 Sc. Acts, Mary (1814) II. 484/1 Item the snype and qualȝie,..ij d.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Gallinago, a wodcocke or a snype.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Rusticula minor, a sknipe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Beccassine,..a Snite, or Snipe.

1746 Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) xi. 179 Where they perceive a Worm's Hole, as I have seen Snipes to do, there they thrust in their Bill.

1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 Went to the Common-room, and supped on the Snipes with Dr. Dry.

1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest vi. 46 The snipe flies screaming from the marshy verge.

1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 36 The Calcutta market is well supplied with..snipes.

1865 Ld. Tennyson On a Mourner ii Nature..greens The swamp, where humm'd the dropping snipe.

b. With adjectives, denoting species of this bird.See also double snipe n. at double adj.¹ and adv. Compounds 1, guttersnipe n., half-snipe n., jack snipe n., mire-snipe n., wood-snipe n. at wood n.¹ Compounds 2b(c).

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a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 193 Gallinago Maderspatana,..the Partridge-Snipe.

1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 471 Finmark Snipe, Scolopax Gallinaria.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 302 It is stated, that the Common Snipes never frequent woods.

1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 583 Common American Snipe, Scolopax Wilsoni.

1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 621 Scolopax grisea, Brown Snipe.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 788/1 The Great Snipe, or Solitary Snipe (Scolopax or Gallinago major),..abounds in the extensive marshes of continental Europe.

c. Applied to various species of birds resembling the snipe. Chiefly with distinguishing epithets.See also duck-snipe n. at duck n.¹ Compounds 2b, jack snipe n., painted, red-breasted, robin snipe, sea-snipe n., stone-, summer-snipe.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank)

redshank1525

redling1655

pool-snite1661

pool snipe1678

red-legged horseman1678

red-legged sandpiper1785

red-leg1798

sand cock1804

snipe1829

redshank gambet1840

teuk1859

yelper1892

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 154 Brown Snipe... The head, neck, and scapulars, of a fine uniform cinereous brown.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 788/1 The Red-breasted Snipe, or Brown Snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus) of North America has been occasionally seen in Britain.

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 155 Dusky snipe.1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 387 Red-shank, or Gambet Snipe, Tringa Gambetta.1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200 The so-called Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura.1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 469 Semipalmated..snipe..with a bill two inches long.1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 585 Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Totanus semipalmatus.1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 148 Spotted Snipe.

d. Without article, in collective sense.

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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy l The delighted pointer would..dash forward to the well-known ‘bottoms’ in eager expectancy of ducks and snipe.

1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific iii. 29 I have often seen flocks of snipe crossing the bay.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 249 In woodcock and true snipe the ear appears below and not behind the eye.

†a. The Egyptian ibis. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > miscellaneous types of

snipe?a1475

scythe-bill1678

glossy ibis1785

hadada1801

black curlew1829

pelican ibis1881

waldrapp1924

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 323 Bryddes callede snypes, odious to serpentes and amiable to men.

b. As a moth-name (see quot. 1832).

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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 66 The Snipe (Xylophasia scolopacina, Haworth) appears in June.

3. As an opprobrious or abusive term.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 377 For I mine owne gain'd knowledge should prophane, If I would time expend with such a snipe .

1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 283 Sir A——r, since you set the Pattern, No longer calls me Snipe and Slattern.

1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xii. 84 The Earl had set a little snipe of a raggetty loon to stir her up.

4. slang.

a. plural. A pair of scissors.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun]

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > collectively

snipe1819

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 207 Snipes, scissors.

1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 345 No slour'd hoxter my snipes could stay.

b. (See quot. 1864.)

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1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 238 Snipe, a long bill or account; also a term for attorneys—a race remarkable for their propensity to long bills.

c. A bankrupt broker.

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1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 131 In street argot, they are ‘snipes’ and lame ducks.

d. U.S. The discarded stub of a cigar or cigarette.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of

doup1710

butt end1827

old soldier1834

butt1847

stub1855

cigar-end1870

stub-end1875

cigarette-end1889

cigar-butt1891

snipe1891

fag end1892

fag1897

bumper1899

scag1915

cigarette-butt1923

dout1928

dog-end1934

roach1939

stompie1947

1891 H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight iv. 124 The ‘Snipe-Shooter’ was guilty of smoking cigar-stubs picked out of the gutter, a habit known among the boys as ‘snipe-shooting’.

1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. iv. 274 This ‘snipe’ chewing and smoking is the most popular use of tobacco in trampdom.

1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 18 Snipe, a cigar or a cigarette stub.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 129 Winfield was..an inveterate collector and smoker of snipes.

e. One of a group of workers, esp. on board ship (see quots.). U.S.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > one of group of workers

snipe1918

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > gang of > member of gang

gangman1830

gangster1913

snipe1918

1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 139 Snipe—Firemen in the ‘black gang’ always refer to each other as ‘snipes’. In a gang of snipes below there is generally one dude who is known as the ‘king snipe’. He is considered the leading snipe of the watch.

1932 Santa Fé Mag. 26 ii. 34/1 A foreman of a section gang is a Jerry or a king; a section laborer is a snipe.

1951 H. Wouk Caine Mutiny xxvi. 289 A big sloppy chowhound named Wagner, a snipe, had made himself a wax impression of the cook's key.

1953 M. Dibner Deep Six xv. 169 A snipe chief wearing a blue shirt and an oil-soiled khaki cap stood legs apart, drinking coffee.

f. Logging. A sloping surface or bevel cut on the fore end of a log to facilitate dragging.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > cut in log

face cut1874

saddle notch1910

snipe1958

1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 172 Snipe, a bevel hewed on the ride side of the end of a log, making it easier to pull over the skids.

1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Mar. 13/1 He took out the long, beautiful 155-foot timbers, 18 inches at the butt and tapered with a four-foot snipe to a four-inch square point.

5. elliptical. = snipe-bill n. 1.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > moulding-plane

moulding plane1649

ogee1678

snipe-bill1678

router1833

snipe1873

1873 Iron 1 Feb. 78/2 Planes... Side snipe, per pair, 7/-.

6. Also Snipe. A type of sloop-rigged sailing boat approximately 15½ ft. long and used for racing; also, the name of this class of boat.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > sailing dinghy > types of

water wag1887

snipe1931

1931 Rudder (U.S.) July 46 Snipe... Designed especially for the Rudder by William F. Crosby.

1931 Rudder (U.S.) July 47/1 Snipe is a design for a small racing sloop.

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 13/6 For the small-boat sailors races have been arranged in the following classes: Snipe, moth, penguin, winabout, Hampton, 20-foot roundbottom, 20-foot (and under) chine built knockabout.

1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 57/1 There is always some fine sailing to be had..some craft beating out into the bay or later in the evening some homeward bound ‘Snipe’ coming in before the wind.

1969 H. Horwood Newfoundland xix. 149 Holyrood has a small harbour at the mouth of a brook, and a junior sailing club with instructors and racing snipes.

7. A long-range shot or attack from a sharp-shooter; the sound of a sniper's bullet. Also figurative.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > indirect > instance of

sidestroke1611

by-wipe1641

by-fling1651

sidewipe1757

sidekick1844

by-quip1855

sidewiper1870

sideswipe1882

snipe1969

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot > type of shot

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snapshot1808

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pot-shot1843

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pot1914

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snipe1969

1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 72 The return snipe struck His mouth below the helmet.

1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 6 For paeans of Blackness were videoed throughout Black America, between the stoccado snipe of the assassin's slug.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 10/1 Rod Stewart..has transcended two years of snipes for his romance with actress Britt Ekland.

1977 Sunday Times 3 July 17/5 The difficulty of organising a ‘snipe’ (assassination by a single gunman) in the tight security of Belfast.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

snipe-bog n.

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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. xi. 226 The road across the marshes and snipe-bogs.

1851 C. Kingsley Yeast viii. 146 Those five miles of heather and snipe-bog.

snipe-dust n.

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1861 Times 12 July A creature who carries a smaller charge of snipe dust in his head.

snipe-ground n.

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1887 W. Rye Month on Norfolk Broads 13 The finest snipe ground in England.

snipe-shooter n.

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1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 494/2 When these birds are very plenty, the snipe-shooters never make use of a dog.

1860 All Year Round 28 Apr. 66 The Analogist had the opportunity of studying the snipe-shooter of Albion.

snipe-shooting n.

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1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 425 Are not such lies themselves..equal to snipe-shooting?

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 18 A fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting.

snipe-shot n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot

swan-shot1639

goose-shota1658

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mustard seed1809

swan-drop1821

snipe-shot1822

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loopers1886

1822 Sporting Mag. 9 174 The best snipe-shot complained that he had not killed more than sixty of these birds.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) ii. 23 A gun loaded with a quantity of sand, equal in weight to a charge of snipe-shot, kicks still more.

1854 S. W. Baker Rifle & Hound in Ceylon vi I had been firing snipe shot at him.

snipe-tribe n.

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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 485 The Snipe Tribe.

snipe-eel n. (a) a species of fish belonging to the deep-sea family Nemichthyidæ; (b) the sea-pike or garfish, Belone vulgaris.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)

horn-fishOE

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thorn-beak1570

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spit-fish1601

sea-needle1603

ganefish1611

snacot-fish1611

greenbacka1682

bill-fisha1757

gar1767

sea-pike1769

saury1771

gar-pike1776

sea-snipea1832

mackerel guide1835

long-nose1836

gore-fish1839

gorebill1862

mackerel-scout1880

Long Tom1881

snipe-eel1882

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Nemichthyidae

snipe-eel1882

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 365 Nemichthyidæ. (The Snipe-Eels.)

1887 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Angling in Salt Water 99 The Garfish,..Snipe Eel, or Sea Needle, is a long, slender fish [etc.].

snipe-fly n. (see quot. 1890).

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1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 6 One of the larger snipe-flies, the Empis tesselata. Notwithstanding the long snipe-like tongue or proboscis of the highly predatory Empis [etc.].

† snipe-knave n. Obsolete a half-snipe, jack-snipe.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > lymnocryptes minimus (jack snipe)

snipe-knave1590

snyte-knave1611

judcock1621

jack snipe1664

gid1674

half-snipe1766

plover's page1771

Jack1824

plover's provider1892

1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 60 Fourtene snypes and five snype kneves xj^d.

1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 61 Seventene snype kneves and foure snypes ix^d.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Deux pour vn, a Snipe-knaue; so called, because two of them are worth but one Snipe.

snipe's-head n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex

snipe-bill1713

snipe's-head1842

thorny woodcock1842

Venus comb1842

sea-purple1855

snipe-shell1889

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 54/2 Species with a very long tube and without spines... Example, Murex Haustellum (Snipe's or Woodcock's head of collectors). [Cf. snipe-bill n. 2.]

1889 Cent. Dict. Caput gallinaginis, the snipe's head; the crista urethræ.

snipe-shell n. (see quot. 1889 and cf. snipe-bill n. 2).

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snipe-bill1713

snipe's-head1842

thorny woodcock1842

Venus comb1842

sea-purple1855

snipe-shell1889

1889 Loudon's Nat. Hist. 532 The Snipe Shell (Murex haustellus, or cornutus), so called on account of the length of the prominency coming out of the shell.

C2. Forming adjectives, as snipe-beaked, snipe-faced, snipe-nosed; snipe-like (also as adverb).

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1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 190 Trumpet Fish..[margin] Snipe Nosed.

1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest III. 45 A little snipe-faced man.

1857 J. Miller Alcohol (1858) 55 He who lives thus snipelike by suction.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 A very snipe-like bird.

1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 494 Snipe-beaked sandpipers.

1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xvi. 157 I took the Allen Keys and a small pair of snipe-nosed pliers.

1969 Gloss. Terms Dentistry (B.S.I.) 48 Snipe-nosed pliers, pliers with square nosed flat beaks... Used for bending wire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

snipev.

Brit.

/snʌɪp/, U.S.

/snaɪp/

Etymology: < snipe n. 1.

1. transitive. To shoot or fire at (men, etc.), one at a time, usually from cover and at long range; to pick off (a person) in this manner. Also figurative.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > in specific manner

ricochet1758

snipe1782

brown1873

to blaze (out) at1909

1782 G. Selwyn Let. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) App. VI. 621 Now people have been shot by platoons and in corps, the individual will be popped at or sniped, as they call it, from time to time.

1895 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 14 The Indian soldier has been called on to be ‘sniped’ by fugitive dacoits.

1900 Daily News 30 Apr. 5/4 The other positions were sniped.

a. intransitive. To fire as in snipe-shooting; to shoot at an enemy in this manner (cf. 1). Also with at and away.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > types of firing

plunge1761

steal1794

snipe1832

to fire into the brown (of them)1845

pot1854

pot-shoot1867

group1911

pot-shot1913

1832 Oriental Sporting Mag. May (1882) 2 291/2 They were all found among high cliffs, and we generally sniped at them from a considerable height.

1844 tr. Mir Hussain Ali's Life Tipu xiv. 179 The Kuzzaks..remained all night attacking, or sniping and throwing rockets into the English camp.

1897 Daily News 4 Sept. 5/4 The enemy sniped away all day without effect.

1901 Scotsman 6 Apr. 9/5 Three hundred Boers hung on the rearguard, sniping but refusing battle.

b. figurative. To assault with harsh sly criticism; to rebuke or censure sharply; to make a carping attack at (someone).

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > indirectly

snipe1892

1892 [implied in: Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve I. vi. 128 Hannah's appetite for snipin' returned. (at sniping n. 1b)].

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 343 Although adult factions may have made peace with each other, their children on the way to school may continue sniping at each other for generations.

1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) i. xiv. 79 The press representatives had eaten and imbibed with gusto, then in published reports, some had sniped at GSP & L for extravagant entertaining at a time of rising utility bills.

3. transitive. Logging. To cut a snipe or bevel on (a log) to ease dragging.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > make cut or notch in log

snipe1870

saddle-notch1953

1870 Overland Monthly 5 July 56/1 The fourth man is the ‘hook-tender’, whose duties are to wait on the team and ‘snipe the logs’.

1902 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 5 375 If the weather is favourable, the log is ‘sniped’ or rounded at one end, an iron grip driven into it, and to this the team is fastened.

1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 173 Snipe,..to hew a snipe on the end of a log. Snipe for the ride, to put the snipe on the side of the log which would ride on the bottom, saving the work of sniping a bevel around the entire end of the log.

4. transitive and intransitive. To pilfer, steal; to pick up or obtain (from the roadside, etc.); spec. to prospect for gold, as in old diggings. Cf. sniper n. 3 slang (chiefly North American).

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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > prospect (region) > types of prospecting for gold, opal, etc.

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1909 R. W. Service Ballads of Cheechako 122 I panned and I panned in the shiny sand, and I sniped on the river bar; But I know, I know, that it's down below that the golden treasures are.

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 280 Snipe, escamoter [sc. to steal, filch].

1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 169 He walked down to Fifty-seventh St, furtively looked round to see if anyone saw him, and when the coast was clear, he sniped a butt from the street.

1974 F. W. Ludditt Campfire Sketches of Cariboo vi. 27 They..made small amounts of money sniping for gold.

1977 New Yorker 20 June 81/1 He ‘sniped’ a lot of his gold—just took it from likely spots without settling down to the formalities of a claim.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	snipe
释义	snipen. Brit. /snʌɪp/, U.S. /snaɪp/ Forms: Middle English–1500s snype, Middle English, 1500s snyppe (1600s snippe), 1500s sknipe, 1600s– snipe. Etymology: Of doubtful origin: the Middle English type snīpe corresponds to a Scandinavian snīpa recorded in Icelandic mýrisnípa, Norwegian myr-, strandsnipa. It is not clear how this is related to Middle Dutch snippe (Dutch and West Frisian snip), Middle Low German and Low German (also older Danish) snippe, German dialect schnippe, and Middle Dutch sneppe (Dutch snep), Middle Low German and Low German sneppe (hence Danish sneppe, Swedish snäppa), Old High German snepha (snepfa) and snepho (German schnepfe, obsolete or dialect schneppe). 1. a. One or other of the limicoline birds of the genus Gallinago (formerly included in the Linnæan genus Scolopax), characterized by having a long straight bill, and by frequenting marshy places; esp. G. cœlestis or media, the common English species. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago snipec1325 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > galinago gallinago (common snipe) snitec725 snipec1325 brewea1475 mire-snipea1525 heather-bleater?1590 jack snipe1664 earn-bleater1754 weather-blate1802 full snipe1824 heather-bleat1824 shad-bird1879 gutter-snipe- c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 166 Un oysel ke est dist becaz, a snype (snyte). c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 349 Barnakes and buturs and many billed snyppes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 461/2 Snype, or snyte, byrde, ibex. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 35 To wodcok, snype, curlue also, Þe betore in fere with hom schalle goo. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/1 Snyppe, a byrde, cigoigne. 1551 Sc. Acts, Mary (1814) II. 484/1 Item the snype and qualȝie,..ij d. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Gallinago, a wodcocke or a snype. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Rusticula minor, a sknipe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Beccassine,..a Snite, or Snipe. 1746 Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) xi. 179 Where they perceive a Worm's Hole, as I have seen Snipes to do, there they thrust in their Bill. 1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 Went to the Common-room, and supped on the Snipes with Dr. Dry. 1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest vi. 46 The snipe flies screaming from the marshy verge. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 36 The Calcutta market is well supplied with..snipes. 1865 Ld. Tennyson On a Mourner ii Nature..greens The swamp, where humm'd the dropping snipe. b. With adjectives, denoting species of this bird.See also double snipe n. at double adj.¹ and adv. Compounds 1, guttersnipe n., half-snipe n., jack snipe n., mire-snipe n., wood-snipe n. at wood n.¹ Compounds 2b(c). ΚΠ a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 193 Gallinago Maderspatana,..the Partridge-Snipe. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 471 Finmark Snipe, Scolopax Gallinaria. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 302 It is stated, that the Common Snipes never frequent woods. 1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 583 Common American Snipe, Scolopax Wilsoni. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 621 Scolopax grisea, Brown Snipe. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 788/1 The Great Snipe, or Solitary Snipe (Scolopax or Gallinago major),..abounds in the extensive marshes of continental Europe. c. Applied to various species of birds resembling the snipe. Chiefly with distinguishing epithets.See also duck-snipe n. at duck n.¹ Compounds 2b, jack snipe n., painted, red-breasted, robin snipe, sea-snipe n., stone-, summer-snipe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank) redshank1525 redling1655 pool-snite1661 pool snipe1678 red-legged horseman1678 red-legged sandpiper1785 red-leg1798 sand cock1804 snipe1829 redshank gambet1840 teuk1859 yelper1892 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 154 Brown Snipe... The head, neck, and scapulars, of a fine uniform cinereous brown. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 788/1 The Red-breasted Snipe, or Brown Snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus) of North America has been occasionally seen in Britain. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 155 Dusky snipe.1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 387 Red-shank, or Gambet Snipe, Tringa Gambetta.1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200 The so-called Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura.1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 469 Semipalmated..snipe..with a bill two inches long.1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 585 Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Totanus semipalmatus.1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 148 Spotted Snipe. d. Without article, in collective sense. ΚΠ 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy l The delighted pointer would..dash forward to the well-known ‘bottoms’ in eager expectancy of ducks and snipe. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific iii. 29 I have often seen flocks of snipe crossing the bay. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 249 In woodcock and true snipe the ear appears below and not behind the eye. 2. †a. The Egyptian ibis. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > miscellaneous types of snipe?a1475 scythe-bill1678 glossy ibis1785 hadada1801 black curlew1829 pelican ibis1881 waldrapp1924 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 323 Bryddes callede snypes, odious to serpentes and amiable to men. b. As a moth-name (see quot. 1832). ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 66 The Snipe (Xylophasia scolopacina, Haworth) appears in June. 3. As an opprobrious or abusive term. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 377 For I mine owne gain'd knowledge should prophane, If I would time expend with such a snipe . View more context for this quotation 1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 283 Sir A——r, since you set the Pattern, No longer calls me Snipe and Slattern. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xii. 84 The Earl had set a little snipe of a raggetty loon to stir her up. 4. slang. a. plural. A pair of scissors. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] shearc725 abscissor?a1425 scissors?a1425 scissorsa1425 forcets1474 snippers1593 forfex1712 snipe1819 clipper1876 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Gallinago > collectively snipe1819 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 207 Snipes, scissors. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 345 No slour'd hoxter my snipes could stay. b. (See quot. 1864.) ΚΠ 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 238 Snipe, a long bill or account; also a term for attorneys—a race remarkable for their propensity to long bills. c. A bankrupt broker. ΚΠ 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 131 In street argot, they are ‘snipes’ and lame ducks. d. U.S. The discarded stub of a cigar or cigarette. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of doup1710 butt end1827 old soldier1834 butt1847 stub1855 cigar-end1870 stub-end1875 cigarette-end1889 cigar-butt1891 snipe1891 fag end1892 fag1897 bumper1899 scag1915 cigarette-butt1923 dout1928 dog-end1934 roach1939 stompie1947 1891 H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight iv. 124 The ‘Snipe-Shooter’ was guilty of smoking cigar-stubs picked out of the gutter, a habit known among the boys as ‘snipe-shooting’. 1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. iv. 274 This ‘snipe’ chewing and smoking is the most popular use of tobacco in trampdom. 1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 18 Snipe, a cigar or a cigarette stub. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 129 Winfield was..an inveterate collector and smoker of snipes. e. One of a group of workers, esp. on board ship (see quots.). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > one of group of workers snipe1918 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > gang of > member of gang gangman1830 gangster1913 snipe1918 1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 139 Snipe—Firemen in the ‘black gang’ always refer to each other as ‘snipes’. In a gang of snipes below there is generally one dude who is known as the ‘king snipe’. He is considered the leading snipe of the watch. 1932 Santa Fé Mag. 26 ii. 34/1 A foreman of a section gang is a Jerry or a king; a section laborer is a snipe. 1951 H. Wouk Caine Mutiny xxvi. 289 A big sloppy chowhound named Wagner, a snipe, had made himself a wax impression of the cook's key. 1953 M. Dibner Deep Six xv. 169 A snipe chief wearing a blue shirt and an oil-soiled khaki cap stood legs apart, drinking coffee. f. Logging. A sloping surface or bevel cut on the fore end of a log to facilitate dragging. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > cut in log face cut1874 saddle notch1910 snipe1958 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 172 Snipe, a bevel hewed on the ride side of the end of a log, making it easier to pull over the skids. 1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Mar. 13/1 He took out the long, beautiful 155-foot timbers, 18 inches at the butt and tapered with a four-foot snipe to a four-inch square point. 5. elliptical. = snipe-bill n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > moulding-plane moulding plane1649 ogee1678 snipe-bill1678 router1833 snipe1873 1873 Iron 1 Feb. 78/2 Planes... Side snipe, per pair, 7/-. 6. Also Snipe. A type of sloop-rigged sailing boat approximately 15½ ft. long and used for racing; also, the name of this class of boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > sailing dinghy > types of water wag1887 snipe1931 1931 Rudder (U.S.) July 46 Snipe... Designed especially for the Rudder by William F. Crosby. 1931 Rudder (U.S.) July 47/1 Snipe is a design for a small racing sloop. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 13/6 For the small-boat sailors races have been arranged in the following classes: Snipe, moth, penguin, winabout, Hampton, 20-foot roundbottom, 20-foot (and under) chine built knockabout. 1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 57/1 There is always some fine sailing to be had..some craft beating out into the bay or later in the evening some homeward bound ‘Snipe’ coming in before the wind. 1969 H. Horwood Newfoundland xix. 149 Holyrood has a small harbour at the mouth of a brook, and a junior sailing club with instructors and racing snipes. 7. A long-range shot or attack from a sharp-shooter; the sound of a sniper's bullet. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > indirect > instance of sidestroke1611 by-wipe1641 by-fling1651 sidewipe1757 sidekick1844 by-quip1855 sidewiper1870 sideswipe1882 snipe1969 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot > type of shot hail-shot1569 random shot1598 long shot1767 snapshot1808 point-blanker1824 pot-shot1843 snap1851 hip shot1874 pop shot1880 sighter1897 pot1914 over1915 short1922 snipe1969 1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 72 The return snipe struck His mouth below the helmet. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 6 For paeans of Blackness were videoed throughout Black America, between the stoccado snipe of the assassin's slug. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 10/1 Rod Stewart..has transcended two years of snipes for his romance with actress Britt Ekland. 1977 Sunday Times 3 July 17/5 The difficulty of organising a ‘snipe’ (assassination by a single gunman) in the tight security of Belfast. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. snipe-bog n. ΚΠ 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. xi. 226 The road across the marshes and snipe-bogs. 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast viii. 146 Those five miles of heather and snipe-bog. snipe-dust n. ΚΠ 1861 Times 12 July A creature who carries a smaller charge of snipe dust in his head. snipe-ground n. ΚΠ 1887 W. Rye Month on Norfolk Broads 13 The finest snipe ground in England. snipe-shooter n. ΚΠ 1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 494/2 When these birds are very plenty, the snipe-shooters never make use of a dog. 1860 All Year Round 28 Apr. 66 The Analogist had the opportunity of studying the snipe-shooter of Albion. snipe-shooting n. ΚΠ 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 425 Are not such lies themselves..equal to snipe-shooting? 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 18 A fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting. snipe-shot n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot swan-shot1639 goose-shota1658 buck-shot1776 mustard seed1809 swan-drop1821 snipe-shot1822 buck1845 swan-post1846 loopers1886 1822 Sporting Mag. 9 174 The best snipe-shot complained that he had not killed more than sixty of these birds. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) ii. 23 A gun loaded with a quantity of sand, equal in weight to a charge of snipe-shot, kicks still more. 1854 S. W. Baker Rifle & Hound in Ceylon vi I had been firing snipe shot at him. snipe-tribe n. ΚΠ 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 485 The Snipe Tribe. b. snipe-eel n. (a) a species of fish belonging to the deep-sea family Nemichthyidæ; (b) the sea-pike or garfish, Belone vulgaris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish) horn-fishOE hornkeckc1425 garfishc1440 horn-stocka1485 green-bone1525 hornbeak1565 thorn-beak1570 horn-back1598 needlefish1601 spit-fish1601 sea-needle1603 ganefish1611 snacot-fish1611 greenbacka1682 bill-fisha1757 gar1767 sea-pike1769 saury1771 gar-pike1776 sea-snipea1832 mackerel guide1835 long-nose1836 gore-fish1839 gorebill1862 mackerel-scout1880 Long Tom1881 snipe-eel1882 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Nemichthyidae snipe-eel1882 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 365 Nemichthyidæ. (The Snipe-Eels.) 1887 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Angling in Salt Water 99 The Garfish,..Snipe Eel, or Sea Needle, is a long, slender fish [etc.]. snipe-fly n. (see quot. 1890). ΚΠ 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 6 One of the larger snipe-flies, the Empis tesselata. Notwithstanding the long snipe-like tongue or proboscis of the highly predatory Empis [etc.]. † snipe-knave n. Obsolete a half-snipe, jack-snipe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > lymnocryptes minimus (jack snipe) snipe-knave1590 snyte-knave1611 judcock1621 jack snipe1664 gid1674 half-snipe1766 plover's page1771 Jack1824 plover's provider1892 1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 60 Fourtene snypes and five snype kneves xj^d. 1590 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 61 Seventene snype kneves and foure snypes ix^d. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Deux pour vn, a Snipe-knaue; so called, because two of them are worth but one Snipe. snipe's-head n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex snipe-bill1713 snipe's-head1842 thorny woodcock1842 Venus comb1842 sea-purple1855 snipe-shell1889 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 54/2 Species with a very long tube and without spines... Example, Murex Haustellum (Snipe's or Woodcock's head of collectors). [Cf. snipe-bill n. 2.] 1889 Cent. Dict. Caput gallinaginis, the snipe's head; the crista urethræ. snipe-shell n. (see quot. 1889 and cf. snipe-bill n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex snipe-bill1713 snipe's-head1842 thorny woodcock1842 Venus comb1842 sea-purple1855 snipe-shell1889 1889 Loudon's Nat. Hist. 532 The Snipe Shell (Murex haustellus, or cornutus), so called on account of the length of the prominency coming out of the shell. C2. Forming adjectives, as snipe-beaked, snipe-faced, snipe-nosed; snipe-like (also as adverb). ΚΠ 1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 190 Trumpet Fish..[margin] Snipe Nosed. 1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest III. 45 A little snipe-faced man. 1857 J. Miller Alcohol (1858) 55 He who lives thus snipelike by suction. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 A very snipe-like bird. 1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 494 Snipe-beaked sandpipers. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xvi. 157 I took the Allen Keys and a small pair of snipe-nosed pliers. 1969 Gloss. Terms Dentistry (B.S.I.) 48 Snipe-nosed pliers, pliers with square nosed flat beaks... Used for bending wire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). snipev. Brit. /snʌɪp/, U.S. /snaɪp/ Etymology: < snipe n. 1. 1. transitive. To shoot or fire at (men, etc.), one at a time, usually from cover and at long range; to pick off (a person) in this manner. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > in specific manner ricochet1758 snipe1782 brown1873 to blaze (out) at1909 1782 G. Selwyn Let. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) App. VI. 621 Now people have been shot by platoons and in corps, the individual will be popped at or sniped, as they call it, from time to time. 1895 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 14 The Indian soldier has been called on to be ‘sniped’ by fugitive dacoits. 1900 Daily News 30 Apr. 5/4 The other positions were sniped. 2. a. intransitive. To fire as in snipe-shooting; to shoot at an enemy in this manner (cf. 1). Also with at and away. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > types of firing plunge1761 steal1794 snipe1832 to fire into the brown (of them)1845 pot1854 pot-shoot1867 group1911 pot-shot1913 1832 Oriental Sporting Mag. May (1882) 2 291/2 They were all found among high cliffs, and we generally sniped at them from a considerable height. 1844 tr. Mir Hussain Ali's Life Tipu xiv. 179 The Kuzzaks..remained all night attacking, or sniping and throwing rockets into the English camp. 1897 Daily News 4 Sept. 5/4 The enemy sniped away all day without effect. 1901 Scotsman 6 Apr. 9/5 Three hundred Boers hung on the rearguard, sniping but refusing battle. b. figurative. To assault with harsh sly criticism; to rebuke or censure sharply; to make a carping attack at (someone). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > indirectly snipe1892 1892 [implied in: Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve I. vi. 128 Hannah's appetite for snipin' returned. (at sniping n. 1b)]. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 343 Although adult factions may have made peace with each other, their children on the way to school may continue sniping at each other for generations. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) i. xiv. 79 The press representatives had eaten and imbibed with gusto, then in published reports, some had sniped at GSP & L for extravagant entertaining at a time of rising utility bills. 3. transitive. Logging. To cut a snipe or bevel on (a log) to ease dragging. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > make cut or notch in log snipe1870 saddle-notch1953 1870 Overland Monthly 5 July 56/1 The fourth man is the ‘hook-tender’, whose duties are to wait on the team and ‘snipe the logs’. 1902 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 5 375 If the weather is favourable, the log is ‘sniped’ or rounded at one end, an iron grip driven into it, and to this the team is fastened. 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 173 Snipe,..to hew a snipe on the end of a log. Snipe for the ride, to put the snipe on the side of the log which would ride on the bottom, saving the work of sniping a bevel around the entire end of the log. 4. transitive and intransitive. To pilfer, steal; to pick up or obtain (from the roadside, etc.); spec. to prospect for gold, as in old diggings. Cf. sniper n. 3 slang (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)] mitcha1393 pelfa1400 purloinc1475 prowl?1529 finger1530 pilfer1532 lurchc1565 filch1567 filch1574 proloyne1581 nim1606 hook1615 truff1718 snaffle1725 crib1735 pettifog1759 magg1762 niffle1785 cabbage1793 weed1811 nibble1819 cab1825 smouch1826 snuga1859 mooch1862 attract1891 souvenir1897 rat1906 snipe1909 promote1918 salvage1918 smooch1941 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > prospect > types of prospecting for gold, opal, etc. stampede1849 speck1888 snipe1909 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > prospect (region) > types of prospecting for gold, opal, etc. pothole1887 speck1903 snipe1909 1909 R. W. Service Ballads of Cheechako 122 I panned and I panned in the shiny sand, and I sniped on the river bar; But I know, I know, that it's down below that the golden treasures are. 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 280 Snipe, escamoter [sc. to steal, filch]. 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 169 He walked down to Fifty-seventh St, furtively looked round to see if anyone saw him, and when the coast was clear, he sniped a butt from the street. 1974 F. W. Ludditt Campfire Sketches of Cariboo vi. 27 They..made small amounts of money sniping for gold. 1977 New Yorker 20 June 81/1 He ‘sniped’ a lot of his gold—just took it from likely spots without settling down to the formalities of a claim. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325v.1782
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