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Definition of Jacksnipes
1. jacksnipe [n] - See also: jacksnipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacksnipes
Literary usage of Jacksnipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Indian Wards by George Washington Manypenny (1880)
"... 187 quail, 32 grouse, 84 field-plover, 33 yellow-leg snipes, 12 jacksnipes,
1 pigeon, 9 hawks, 3 owls, 2 badgers, 7 raccoon, 143 meadow- larks, doves, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... but some confounded disagreeable feller in your clothes ; yet the jacksnipes
all grin, as if the misfortunes of human naturo was only a poppet show. ..."
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