Brownback

Quick meaning: Brownback is a noun meaning A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

Meaning

A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

More Meanings

1. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.

Example Sentences

The brownbacks come into circulation by creating a debt and involving double interest.

Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps.

There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing.

In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds.

Word Forms

• brownbacks

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include longbeak, whiteback, ringbird, sharptail, shadbird, red-bird.

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