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Willet n. (Zool.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.

Carolina willet, the Hudsonian godwit.

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Etymology of 'Willet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Willet" Quotes from Famous Books

... describes a game among the Creeks in which there was but one goal consisting of two poles erected in the centre of the field between which the ball must pass to count one. He cites "Butram," and the "Narrative of a Mission to the Creek Nation by Col. Mammus Willet," is his authorities neither of them sustains him on this point.] speaks as if in the game which he saw played there was but a single goal. He says "They agree upon a mark or aim about sixty ...

— Indian Games • Andrew McFarland Davis

... this message in a very friendly spirit. He assured Captain Willet, the messenger, that the accusation was a gross slander; that the Narragansets were his unrelenting foes; and that they had fabricated the story that they might alienate from him his good friends the English. He promised that he would attend the next meeting ...

— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Words linked to "Willet" : genus Catoptrophorus, Catoptrophorus, tattler, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus