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GREYBACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
Synonyms:
Calidris canutus; grayback; greyback; knot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("greyback" is a kind of...):
sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)
Holonyms ("greyback" is a member of...):
Calidris; genus Calidris (a genus of Scolopacidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A dowitcher with a grey back
Synonyms:
grayback; greyback; Limnodromus griseus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("greyback" is a kind of...):
dowitcher (shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)
Sense 3
Meaning:
'Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
Synonyms:
greyback; Johnny; Johnny Reb; Reb; Rebel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("greyback" is a kind of...):
Confederate soldier (a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
