Sān'der-ling, n.

noun

n. [From sand, because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the sea-shores.] (Ornith.) A small wading bird, allied to the dotterel and to the sandpiper; Arenaria calidris of Meyer. Jardine.

An engraved illustration of a sanderling standing on the ground.
Sanderling.