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Redshank   Listen
noun
Redshank  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (Totanus fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
(b)
The fieldfare.
2.
A bare-legged person; a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.





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"Redshank" Quotes from Famous Books



... cliffs, and many find all they need in the wide mud-flats. Such an army is there of these shore birds, that we cannot even glance at them all in this lesson. So we will take a few of them only—the Black-headed Gull, the Cormorant, the Ringed Plover, the Oyster-catcher and the Redshank. ...
— On the Seashore • R. Cadwallader Smith


Words linked to "Redshank" :   genus Tringa, sandpiper, Tringa


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