grayback


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Noun1.Grayback - a dowitcher with a grey backgrayback - a dowitcher with a grey back  
dowitcher - shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
2.Grayback - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemispheregrayback - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Calidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae
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He THINKS he's a Sheol of a farmer; thinks he's old Grayback from Wayback; but between you and me privately he don't know as much about farming as he does about running a kingdom -- still, whatever he talks about, you want to drop your underjaw and listen, the same as if you had never heard such incredible wisdom in all your life before, and were afraid you might die before you got enough of it.
This home on Grayback Drive in Las Vegas is zoned for Theron H & Naomi Goynes Elementary School.
The first attack group, comprised of the Cero (SS-225), Shad (SS-235), and Grayback (SS-208), was not formed until the summer of 1943.
Jake Charlson said his lone sibling - who attended Lifegate Christian School in Eugene - was one class short of graduating from Southern Oregon University in Ashland when he was hired by Grayback Forestry of Merlin as a seasonal firefighter in the summer of 2008.
Of the 63 officers on active service, 20 would resign their commissions at the outbreak of that war, many to accept commissions in the new "grayback" Marine Corps of the Confederacy.
Civil War: Views from the Grayback Market." Southern Economic Journal, 68, 2002, 875-89.
In one of the other rooms work is going on to create the prosthetics elements of Grayback, a werewolf that will be partspecial effects and part-actor when it eventually comes on to the screen.
Werewolf Fenir Grayback, a new villain, is also seen menacing our heroes.
Spence Dry, the officer in charge, were launched in a minisub from the attack submarine USS Grayback. The special operations team was prepared to select a position to watch for the escaping POWs.
Many of these rocks have associated gold deposits; examples include Annie Creek and Richmond Hill in South Dakota, Grayback in Colorado, and Elizabethtown-Baldy in New Mexico.
Though unheard of elsewhere in the Navy at the time, such operations had been routine aboard USS Grayback (SS-574) for more than a decade.
Asimismo, Zinc Nacional produce papel para panel de yeso del tipo "Grayback", "Ivory", "Brown" o "Green".