Crossword-Solution: REDSHANK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Redshank | n. | A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. |
| Redshank | n. | The fieldfare. |
| Redshank | n. | A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “REDSHANK”
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| Large sandpiper. | 2 answers |
| BRITISH coastal bird | 3 answers |
| A COMMON OLD WORLD WADING BIRD WITH LONG RED LEGS | 11 answers |
| Sandpiper | 14 answers |
| Coastal bird | 14 answers |
| Shore bird | 35 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
| Animal ___. | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REDSHANK (5)
Birds imitate the note or phrase that strikes them most, and is easiest to imitate, as when the thrush copies the piping and trilling of the redshank and the easy song of the ring-ouzel, which, when incorporated into his own music, harmonizes with it perfectly.
Pray proceed, sir.” “Well sir, it so happened that this Hamilton, who had been originally a Scotch Redshank, became privately acquainted with a beautiful and wealthy orphan girl, a relation of the O'Neils; and it so happened again, that whether they made a throw on the dice for it or not, he won her affections.
The redshank, who has much the cut of a snipe, plus red-orange legs, must have heard or seen him coming in the new, thin moonlight, and told all the marsh about it with a shrieking whistled, "Tyop! tyop!" But the nest contained four eggs, which the polecat took in lieu of anything bigger, carrying two--one journey for each--all the way to the sea-bank, to yet another hole he had previously scraped, or found, therein.
She was carrying an old hen-redshank in her jaws, its long beak and one of its wings clearly silhouetted against the moon.
They had been preparing for a rush, a real Redshank, painted and feathered, descent upon her, when something in her sorrowful attitude becomes known to them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–1979).