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ˈredskin
Also red-skin.
[See red a. 5 c.]
1. A North American Indian. (Not the preferred term.)
1699S. Smith in H. E. Smith Colonial Days (1900) 49 Ye firste Meetinge House was solid mayde to withstande ye wicked onsaults of ye Red Skins. 1823E. James Long's Exped. I. 160 The whites will not harm the red-skins when they have them thus in their power. 1851Dixon W. Penn xxiii. (1872) 205 A strong believer in the native virtues of the Redskins, when these savages were treated well. 1890Times 27 Dec. 3/2 After dark the whole band..renewed the attack, Kicking Bear himself leading the redskins.
attrib.1699S. Smith in H. E. Smith Colonial Days (1900) 49 My Honoured Father was as Active as ye Red⁓skin Men and sinewy. 1871Lubbock in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. (1872) I. 3 Though the Redskin family is constituted in a manner very unlike ours [etc.]. 1883Athenæum 20 Jan. 81/1 A picture of redskin life.
2. A variety of potato.
1908Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 702/1 The chief products grown are..potatoes... Tasmanian ‘redskins’ are..exported. 1973Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 21 Feb. 2/8 Scandinavia demands Redskin..and Maris Piper. |