knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus
(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
greyback, grayback, Limnodromus griseus
(noun) a dowitcher with a grey back
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grayback (plural graybacks)
Alternative spelling of greyback
Source: Wiktionary
Gray"back`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The California gray whale. (b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. (c) The dowitcher. (d) The body louse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
