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(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.