redstreak

noun — 2 senses

redstreak

noun

Etymology Bahuvrihi compound of red + streak

1

A kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.

  • the Summer and the Winter, the Yellow and the Red , and the more green Redstreak1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
2

Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

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