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Definition of brownback

brownback
Sandpiper Sand"pi`per, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid[ae]. Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis, or Tringoides, hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
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Dowitcher Dow"itch*er, n. (Zo["o]l.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
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Brownback Brown"back`, n. (Zo["o]l.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

Meaning of brownback from wikipedia

- Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Kansas from...
- widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute...
- Look up brownback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brownback is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sam Brownback (born 1956), American...
- Brownback v. King, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a dismissal for failure to state a claim under...
- 2010 election, Governor Sam Brownback called for a complete "phase out of Kansas's income tax". In May 2012, Governor Brownback signed into law the Kansas...
- 1998. In****bent Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback won re-election to his first full term. Brownback was first elected in a special election held...
- other business purposes. In 2007, Baldwin endorsed Sam Brownback for U.S. president. After Brownback ended his campaign, Baldwin switched his support to...
- various state and local elections. In****bent Republican governor Sam Brownback ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed in the general election...
- April 28, 2009, declined to s**** election to a full term. Senator Sam Brownback, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2008, emerged as the Republican...
- Kansas Senate from 2009 to 2011. He ****umed the governorship when Sam Brownback resigned to become United States Amb****ador-at-Large for International...