robin snipe
North American
noun
1The knot, Calidris canutus, especially in its red-breasted breeding plumage.
2A dowitcher (genus Limnodromus).
Origin
Early 19th century.
- strict construction
- strict liability
- strictly
- (strictly) for the birds
- strictness
- stricture
- strictured
- stride
- stridency
- strident
- stridently
- strider
- stridor
- stridulant
- stridulate
- stridulation
- stridulatory
- stridulous
- strife
- strigil
- strigose
- strikable
- strike
- strike a balance
- strike a blow for (or against)