Meanings
nounredstreak (plural redstreaks)
plural redstreaks
- 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 Redstreak
1707, 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 - Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Origin
Bahuvrihi compound of red + streak
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