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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Willet

/wĭl'-ĭt/ · Wil·let · IPA /wˈɪlɪt/
01 n. A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, …
  1. 1.
    A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.(Zool.) Also: pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, snipe, duck snipe, stone curlew
Phrases & compounds
Carolina willet — the Hudsonian godwit.