jpdb beta

sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); (lit.) a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)

a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel