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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Sănd'pī-per, n.

noun

n. (Ornith.) A wading bird of the snipe family, belonging to the genera Totanus and Tringa. It inhabits sea-shores and marine marshes.

An engraved sandpiper stands on a branch, facing right.
Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucos).