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s | greyback |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun greyback is

(historical|us|colloquial) a confederate soldier during the us civil war (because of the grey uniforms).

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    greyback

    English

    Alternative forms

    *grayback

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
  • * 1871 , Mary Stephens Robinson, A household story of the American conflict
    • ...to resist the farther advance of the greybacks .
  • *1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 739:
  • *:Sheridan managed to keep the graybacks at bay while he tore up the railroad, but he abandoned the plan to link up with Hunter, and the southerners soon repaired the railroad.
  • (dated) A louse.
  • * 1886 , Central Reporter: Cases, Courts of Last Resort
    • It is alleged by the defendant that there were scabs and greybacks in it, and that it did not come up to the quality of No. 1 slate as contracted for.
  • A local name for various grey birds.

    • Derived terms

    * greyback cane grub * greyback goose