greyback
n 1: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
[syn: {Rebel}, {Reb}, {Johnny Reb}, {Johnny}, {greyback}]
2: a dowitcher with a grey back [syn: {greyback}, {grayback},
{Limnodromus griseus}]
3: a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the
southern hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {greyback}, {grayback},
{Calidris canutus}]