Word: snipe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English Snipe on Toast, Lettuce Salad...
...college days become a fair wing shot and acquired a taste for shooting will find open to him during his vacation a never ending means of enjoyment. Nothing will more refresh an overworked mind and body than a day spent with that zest which only a sportsman knows, after snipe and ducks in the marsh, or among woody haunts of ruffled grouse. It is almost needless to mention the pleasures of wing shooting, to recall the never-to-be-forgotten thrill of excitement when a grouse or bunch of quail rises with its whir, or, if the gunner...