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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)