eng: greyback

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Meaning
means	(noun) `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 Rebel, Reb, Johnny, greyback, Johnny Reb
means	(noun) a dowitcher with a grey back grayback, Limnodromus griseus, greyback
means	(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere greyback, knot, Calidris canutus, grayback