Redshanks

Word REDSHANKS
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Definitions and meanings of "Redshanks"

What do we mean by redshanks?

Either of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.

A species of moss (Ceratodon purpureus), also known as fire moss or purple horn toothed moss.

Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.

A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.

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The word "redshanks" in example sentences

The rising tide was pushing little flocks of waders up the beach, including oystercatchers, redshanks and turnstones, the latter beautifully camouflaged as they fed on the exposed rocks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Knot spun away in a grey miniature cloud, wigeon split up into small groups while the redshanks did not seem to know what to do. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There are more birds, waders, among the weed that fringes the seals 'rocks, turnstones and redshanks probably, but so far away are they, and so well does their brown plumage blend with the background, it is difficult to be sure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These at least are certainly redshanks; even at a distance it is possible to see that on landing they briefly hold their wings aloft in characteristic pose. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A group of gulls piloted a fishing boat to shore, diving in to snatch an occasional morsel, and oystercatchers swooped toward the mud banks in a flash of black and white, while small redshanks and sanderlings scurried to probe the slate. ❋ MELANIE GEORGE (2004)

The moorland was full of snipes and teal, and curlews flying and crying, and lapwings flapping heavily, and ravens hovering round dead sheep; yet no redshanks nor dottrell, and scarce any golden plovers (of which we have great store generally) but vast lonely birds, that cried at night, and moved the whole air with their pinions; yet no man ever saw them. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

On redshanks and tibs thou shalt every day dine, [10] ❋ John S. Farmer (N/A)

It was rather fun wandering about the dark valleys with the stray bullets flying high overhead like redshanks whistling. ❋ Unknown (1938)

She had dragged herself up the hill to escape from the bickerings at Yaverland's End, and had been resting there, looking down on the peace of the marshes and listening to the unargumentative cry of the redshanks, and wishing that she might dwell during this time among such quiet things; and suddenly there came a wind from the sea, and it was as if a little naked child had been blown into her soul. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

When Richard comes he will take you on the sea-wall and show you the redshanks in the little streams among the mud. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

She wanted to start up and cry out to him and hail him noisily from his obsession; but something in the place, in the call of the redshanks, in the procession of the shadows, reminded her that when she had cried out before she had brought death upon her lover. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

But nothing came to her save the memory of the cold, wet, unargumentative cry of the redshanks that she had heard on the marshes. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

Unpeopled earth seemed to her desirable as unadulterated food; the speech of man among the cries of the redshanks would have been to her like sand in the sugar. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

The call of the redshanks, the cloud shadows that moved over the marshes like the footprints of invisible presences, made her feel calm. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

Lovely it was to find that he liked all the things she did: loneliness and the sting of rain on the face and the cry of the redshanks; and lovely it was to find in watching his liking what a glorious being it was that she had borne. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

And out there on the cold lonely marshes we would see wild geese flying, and curlews and redshanks and many other kinds of seabirds that live among the samfire and the long grass of the great salt fen. ❋ Hugh Lofting (1916)

The other day I disturbed a brood of redshanks here, the parent birds flying round and round, piping mournfully, almost within reach of my hand. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

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