Snipe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A fool; a blockhead.

II. Snipe ·add. ·vi To shoot or hunt snipe.

III. Snipe ·add. ·vt To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.

IV. Snipe ·add. ·vt To shoot at (detached men of an enemy's force) at long range, ·esp. when not in action.

V. Snipe ·add. ·vi To shoot at detached men of an enemy's forces at long range, ·esp. when not in action;

— often with at.

VI. Snipe ·noun Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.