grayback

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grayback Definition

• (n) `johnny'' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback'' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms
• (n) a dowitcher with a gray back
• (n) a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

grayback Synonyms

• Calidris canutus
• grayback
• Johnny
• Johnny Reb
• knot
• Limnodromus griseus
• Reb
• Rebel