grayback

n 1: (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for

Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the

American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray

Confederate uniforms [syn: {Rebel}, {Reb}, {Johnny Reb},

{Johnny}]

2: a dowitcher with a gray back [syn: {Limnodromus griseus}]

3: sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S

hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {Calidris canutus}]