Grayback

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The knot or red-breasted sandpiper, Tringa canutus.
  • noun. The gray snipe.
  • noun. The common body-louse, Pediculus vestimenti.
  • noun. The dab, a fish.
  • noun. The California gray whale, Rhachianectes glaucus.
  • noun. The red-headed duck or American pochard, Fuligula americana.
  • noun. The black-headed or American scaup duck, Fuligula marila nearctica.
  • noun. A Confederate soldier during the American civil war; a graycoat.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The California gray whale.
  • noun. The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.
  • noun. The dowitcher.
  • noun. The body louse.
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  • noun. Alternative spelling of greyback.
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  • noun. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
  • noun. a dowitcher with a grey back
    • Word Usage
    "Note the "grayback" shirt which I mentioned in The Moonlight Mistress."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dowitcher  sandpiper  
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