Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Whimbrel \Whim"brel\, n. [Cf. {Whimper}.] (Zo["o]l)
   Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the
   European species (Numenius ph[ae]opus), called also {Jack
   curlew}, {half curlew}, {stone curlew}, and {tang whaup}. See
   Illustration in {Appendix}.

   {Hudsonian} or, {Eskimo}, {whimbreal}, the Hudsonian curlew.