Meanings of grayback in English

The silence that followed the words of the boy was broken by Quantrell's old grayback.

He's a Yankee! bellowed the grayback on the shore.

Stop him! replied the grayback on the shore.

The bateau approached the point not more than a rod from the waiting arms of the sympathizing grayback.

We had had a small tent to ourselves, and the socialistic grayback, as yet, had not crawled therein.

Tom looked up, and discovered a grayback, standing on the shore, very deliberately pointing his musket at him.

As soon as that was discovered, we had them cut off, but it was too late-thelittle grayback would not eat.

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

It would have been heartbreaking to have been obliged to come away without finding that little grayback, and perhaps never know what became of him.

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

That is Thad Grayback who has a farm up the road.

Then he told me that they were not all graybacks.

You mean to s'y you ain't got any graybacks!

Our principal occupation at this place was playing poker, chuck-a-luck and cracking graybacks (lice).

A wan light played upon the heaving "graybacks" outside the mouth of the harbor.

I'm old Grayback from 'way back in Mervo.