Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of apple, so called from the color of the skin.
- noun Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
- noun Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
apple with theskin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite Englishcider apple. - noun
Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Besides the trees in her orchard, poor widow Brown had in her small garden one apple-tree particularly fine; it was a redstreak, so tempting and so lovely that Giles 'family had watched it with longing eyes, till at last they resolved on a plan for carrying off all this fine fruit in their bags.
Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
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Contending angels may shake the regions of heaven in blank verse; but the flow of equal measures, and the embellishment of rhyme, must recommend to our attention the art of engrafting, and decide the merit of the redstreak and pearmain.
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Once for all, Mrs. Minx, leave off talking of Hocus, or I will pull out these saucer-eyes of yours, and make that redstreak country face look as raw as an ox-cheek upon a butcher's-stall; remember, I say, that there are pillories and ducking-stools. "
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