Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Willet \Wil"let\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   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.