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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Shadbird

/(shăd"bẽrd)/ · Shad·bird · IPA
01 n. The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.
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    The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.] See: Snipe