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Definition of Redlegs
1. redleg [n] - See also: redleg
Medical Definition of Redlegs
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Redlegs
Literary usage of Redlegs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting, Yachting, and Sea-fishing Trips, at Home and on the Continent by Lewis Clements (1877)
"redlegs. I CANNOT help being amused at the somewhat startling grumbles one is
apt to find in ... redlegs, for instance, are almost unanimously condemned, ..."
2. "I was There" with the Yanks on the Western Front, 1917-1919by Hilmar Robert Baukhage by Hilmar Robert Baukhage (1919)
"I says to Johnny redlegs, "If I didn't have nine lives Your barrage would have
got me ... Then redlegs drops his corn-cob And spits on both his han's, And, ..."
3. Stark's History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands by James Henry Stark (1903)
"The " redlegs " are poor whites, the descendants of the " Wild Irishry " who were
sent here and sold as slaves by Cromwell. This opprobrious name was given ..."
4. Stark's History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands: Containing a by James Henry Stark (1903)
"The " redlegs " are poor whites, the descendants of the " Wild Irishry " who were
sent here and sold as slaves by Cromwell. This opprobrious name was given ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... bachmani) were said to inhabit the island, but I was not favored with a glimpse
of these "birds with redlegs," as they are known to the fishermen. ..."
6. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (1911)
"this comic redlegs, the mountain's merriest child, seems to be made up of pure,
condensed gayety. The Douglas squirrel is the only living creature that I ..."
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