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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



... and Kentish; dotterels of two kinds, red-throated and Asiatic; the Manx shearwater, the flamingo, the heron, the common kingfisher, and the black and white kingfisher of Egypt, the jay, the wood-pigeon, the rock-dove, the blue thrush, the Egyptian fantail (Drymoeca gracilis), the redshank, the wheat-ear (Saxicola libanotica), the common lark, the Persian horned lark, the cisticole, the yellow-billed Alpine chough, the nightingale of the East (Ixos xanthopygius), the robin, the brown linnet, the ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
 
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Words linked to "Redshank" :   Tringa totanus, sandpiper, Tringa



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