either of two snipelike shore birds, Limnodromus griseus or L. scolopaceus, of arctic and subarctic North America: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
Word origin
C19: of Iroquoian origin
dowitcher in American English
(ˈdaʊɪtʃər)
US
nounWord forms: pluralˈdowitchers or ˈdowitcher
a medium-sized, long-legged, long-billed snipe (genus Limnodromus) of North America and Asia
Word origin
< AmInd (Iroquoian) native name
Examples of 'dowitcher' in a sentence
dowitcher
I shot a short-billed dowitcher on one leg in still water, his reflection underneath him.