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plural godwits
Any of four species of long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. quotations examples
My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist