Crossword-Solution: DOWITCHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dowitcher | n. | The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback. |
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| BROWNBACK | 1 answer |
| Stock market irritant? | 1 answer |
| type of snipelike shore bird of arctic and subarctic N America | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with DOWITCHER (3)
THE DOWITCHER, OR RED-BREASTED SNIPE (Macrorhampus scolopaceus) Though not of the same genus, the closet relative to the Wilson snipe is the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
This species of the dowitcher is a western bird, breeding well to the north and migrating south to Mexico.
The only other true snipe ascertained to exist in America, is the RED BREASTED SNIPE, _Scolopax Noveboracensis_, better known as the “DOWITCHER,” an unmeaning name, adopted and persevered in by the Baymen, or as the “Quail Snipe.” At Egg Harbor the gunners call it the “Brown-back.” It is found only on the salt marshes, and is never hunted with dogs but shot from ambush over decoys.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).