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snipe

(sn/aI/p )

Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks(noun.animal)

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a gunshot from a concealed location(noun.act)

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Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidæ, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.(noun)

source: webster1913

hunt or shoot snipe(verb.competition)

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aim and shoot with great precision(verb.competition)

Synonym:
sharpshoot

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attack in speech or writing(verb.communication)

Synonym:
assail, assault, attack, lash out, round

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To shoot or hunt snipe.(verb)

source: webster1913
To shoot at (detached men of an enemy's force) at long range, esp. when not in action.(verb)

source: webster1913

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