small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics.
large European sandpiper with greenish legs.
large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill.
Underneath was carefully printed: A sandpiper to bring you joy.
Bishop's sandpiper poem, there in your handout, is obsessed with the mere details of experience, those sand grains and quartz grains.
The sun was shining one morning as I took my hands out of the dishwater. "I need a sandpiper," I said to myself, gathering up my coat.
A sandpiper glided by.
That sounds good, I thought, and slipped off my shoes. A sandpiper glided by.
sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S hemisphere.