Definitions for grayback

grayback gray·back

Spelling: [grey-bak]
IPA: /ˈgreɪˌbæk/

Grayback is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in grayback (aabcgkry).

Definitions for grayback

noun

  1. any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
  2. Informal. a Confederate soldier.

Origin of grayback

First recorded in 1805-15; gray1 + back1

Examples for grayback

The rasp of his own 'grayback' shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself.

It was old “grayback” whose nerves gave way first; he that started the stampede back to light and sunshine.

My air-treading, toe-dancing “grayback” of the morning was gone in the back and legs long before we reached the end.

“grayback” tried to climb up on the tip of a submerged boulder, slipped with all four feet at once and went over sidewise.

The grayback had evidently found the clothes, and suspected the purpose for which they were concealed.

He stepped back to one of the two windows on the front of the house, where he discovered an officer and two “grayback” soldiers.

An old stove without a pipe is going and some stinking stuff is burning that nothing short of a grayback can stand.

Not a suspicion had yet been excited among my grayback companions.

"There's life there, grayback," growled my attendant; and the Rebel ordered us to the rear.

And the "grayback" (as the boys termed the rebels) could hear the ominous click of the gun lock in Frank's hands.

Word Value for grayback
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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