Usually means: Wading bird with red legs.
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  1. redshank: Merriam-Webster
  2. redshank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. redshank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. redshank: Collins English Dictionary
  5. redshank: Vocabulary.com
  6. redshank: Wordnik
  7. redshank: Wiktionary
  8. redshank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. redshank: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Redshank, redshank: Dictionary.com
  11. Redshank (soldier), Redshank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Redshank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. redshank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. redshank: Rhymezone
  15. Redshank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. redshank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. redshank: FreeDictionary.org
  18. redshank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. redshank: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. redshank: Encyclopedia

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redshank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (redshank)

noun:  Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
noun:  Any of species Ceratodon purpureus of moss
noun:  Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.
noun:  (obsolete, derogatory) A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.

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