单词 | snipe-faced |
释义 | > as lemmassnipe-faced 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. < as lemmas |
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