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Definition of Grayback

1. Noun. A dowitcher with a grey back.

2. Noun. A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere.

Definition of Grayback

1. n. The California gray whale.

Definition of Grayback

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of greyback) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grayback

1. a gray bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Grayback

1. The California gray whale. The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. The dowitcher. The body louse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grayback

gray sole gray squirrel gray substance gray syndrome gray tape gray tapes gray tuber gray tubercle gray wedge gray whale

gray willow gray wing gray wolf gray wolves grayback (current term) graybacks graybar hotel graybeard graybeards graybodies

graybody grayed grayer grayest grayfish grayfishes grayflies grayfly grayhaired

Literary usage of Grayback

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The rasp of his own " grayback " shirt and the squeak or' his boots seemed to bring him to himself. ..."

2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Catch in the lake : Yellow perch, 52 ; log perch, 30 ; bluegill, 25 ; straw bass, 21 ; small-mouth black bass, 12 ; grayback minnow, 46 ; blunt-nose minnow. ..."

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