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Redshank
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
"Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry."
- 2 a common Old World wading bird with long red legs wordnet
- 3 Any of species Ceratodon purpureus of moss
- 4 Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.
- 5 A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts. derogatory, obsolete
"Much worse then the former; for who that is experienced in those partes and knoweth not that the Oneales are neerely alied unto the Mac Oneales of Scotland, and to the Earle of Argill, from whom they use to have all ther succors of those Scottes and Redshanks?"
Etymology
From red + shank.
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