redstreak
English edit
Etymology edit
Bahuvrihi compound of red + streak
Noun edit
redstreak (plural redstreaks)
- A kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
- the Summer and the Winter, the Yellow and the Red , and the more green Redstreak
- Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
References edit
- “redstreak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.