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blueback|ˈbluːbæk|
[f. blue a. + back n.1]
1. A species of fish, or bird, having a bluish back. Also attrib.
c1532in Palsgr. 912 The blewe back and redbrest, la pioue. 1812W. Bentley Diary 22 Oct. (1914) IV. 125 Mr Osgood..had taken great numbers of the Herrings called Bluebacks..this season. 1843J. E. DeKay Zool. in Nat. Hist. N.Y. v. 24 There is a variety of the Lobster, termed Bluebacks, on account of their dark bluish colour. 1871Game Laws in Fur, Fin, & Feather (1872) 158 This section shall not apply to the taking of blue back trout in Franklin and Oxford counties. 1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 178 Of these species, the blue-back predominates in Frazer's river. Ibid. 180 Little blue-backs [sc. salmon] of every size down to six inches are also found in the Upper Columbia in the fall. 1883Century Mag. Sept. 684/1 The blue-back's nest was scarcely a foot from the ground. 1965Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 9 Fieldfare,..blueback: ‘Fylde’,..Warrington, Liverpool.
2. A legal-tender note issued by the Confederacy during the Civil War. U.S.
1869in Mathews Beginnings Amer. English (1931) 156 The Rebels had their ‘bluebacks’ for money. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 47 During the Civil War..the original Blue Backs of the Confederacy (so-called in opposition to the Green Backs of the Union) soon became known as Shucks.
3. Chiefly pl. Paper money issued by the Transvaal Government in 1865. S. Afr.
1878Trollope South Africa II. 225 The blue-backs as they were called were printed. 1900Daily News 17 Sept. 5/2 President Kruger has deserted them, taking all the gold, and leaving them only ‘blue-backs’. |