redleg

See also: red-leg

English

Etymology

red +‎ leg

Noun

redleg (plural redlegs)

  1. A bird, the redshank.
  2. A bird, the turnstone.
  3. (Caribbean, derogatory) A member of a class of poor white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for redleg in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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