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Definition of Redshanks
1. redshank [n] - See also: redshank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redshanks
Literary usage of Redshanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maitland of Lethington: And the Scotland of Mary Stuart by John Skelton (1887)
"Amongst the redshanks—he continues —is continual battle. ... No men thus are less
delicate than the redshanks, or less given to voluptuous and fleshly ..."
2. Maitland of Lethington: And the Scotland of Mary Stuart by John Skelton (1887)
"Amongst the redshanks—he continues —is continual battle. ... No men thus are less
delicate than the redshanks, or less given to voluptuous and fleshly ..."
3. Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and Its Neighbourhood,: From by Samuel Seyer (1821)
"The neighbourhood attributes the formation of this camp to the redshanks, i' e'
to the Danes, so called probably from the red skins with which they bound ..."
4. Rambles Among the Hills in the Peak of Derbyshire, and the South Downs by Louis John Jennings (1880)
"Godwits and redshanks.—To Poynings over the Downs.—The Devil's Dyke.—A Village
out-at-elbows. —The British " Harry " out for a Holiday. ..."
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