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a common Old World wading bird with long red legs

a common Old World wading bird with long red legs

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

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

An aquatic bird of the snipe family, with legs of a bright red color.

The name of the red-leg sandpiper; an appellation of contempt for bare-legged people.

n. A native bird, longirostral and grallatorial, akin to the snipe—so called from the colour of its logs;—also, a Scotch Highlander, in contemptuous allusion to his bare legs.