Bible Dictionaries
Redshank

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A bare-legged person; - a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.

(2):

(n.) The fieldfare.

(3):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Redshank'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/redshank.html. 1828.