redstreak
English
Etymology
Bahuvrihi compound of red + streak
Noun
redstreak (plural redstreaks)
- A kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
- Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for redstreak in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)