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Redcap

Redcap \Red"cap`\, n.

  1. (Zo["o]l) The European goldfinch.

  2. A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland. [Scot.]
    --Jamieson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redcap

"porter at a railroad station," 1914, American English, from red (adj.1) + cap (n.). Earlier it was the name of the goldfinch, a type of hen, and a long-toothed spectre in Scottish castles.

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redcap

n. 1 (context British English) A member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Military%20Police a unit in the British army. 2 (context US English) A porter in a US railway station. 3 (context British archaic English) The European goldfinch (''Carduelis carduelis''). 4 (context British folklore English) A type of evil goblin or imp 5 A breed of poultry. See red cap.

WordNet
redcap
  1. n. a member of the military police in Britain

  2. a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station

Wikipedia
Redcap

A red cap or redcap, also known as a powrie or dunter, is a type of malevolent, murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in Border Folklore. They are said to inhabit ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland. Redcaps are said to murder travellers who stray into their homes and dye their hats with their victims' blood (from which they get their name). Redcaps must kill regularly, for if the blood staining their hats dries out, they die. Redcaps are very fast in spite of the heavy iron pikes they wield and the iron-shod boots they wear. Outrunning a redcap is supposedly impossible.

They are depicted as sturdy old men with red eyes, taloned hands and large teeth, wearing a red cap and bearing a pikestaff in the left hand.

The tale of one in Perthshire depicts him as more benign; living in a room in Grantully Castle, he bestows good fortune on those who see or hear him.

The Kabouter, or redcaps of Dutch folklore, are very different, and more akin to brownies.

Redcap (TV series)

Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network.

It starred John Thaw as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police and ran for two series and 26 episodes between 1964 and 1966. Of the run, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist (the missing episodes are indicated below).

Redcap (disambiguation)

Redcap or red cap may refer to:

Redcap (novel)

Redcap is a 2006 novel by the author Brian Callison. Set over a span of 10 years from 1957 to 1967 it follows the rather unfortunate career of the protagonist, one Staff Sergeant Walker of the Royal Military Police commencing in the Cypriot conflict between EOKA and British Personnel and then skipping 10 years to Walker's final month prior to retirement whilst he is stationed in Berlin.

The novel differs strongly from Callison's other works in that it no way relates to the Navy; there are no nautical references whatsoever throughout the entirety of the story, most of the characters travel by means of Land Rover.

Category:2006 novels Category:Novels set in Cyprus

Redcap (Research Electronic Data Capture)

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a browser-based, metadata-driven EDC software solution and workflow methodology for designing clinical and translational research databases. It is widely used in the academic research community: the REDCap Consortium is a collaborative, international network of more than 1700 institutional partners in over 95 countries, with more than 300,000 total end-users employing the software for more than 200,000 ongoing research studies.

Usage examples of "redcap".

Radegonde de la Cockaigne, Kokudza, the Starveling, and Little Tommy Redcap.

The nine Great Ones of the Little People emerged from the throngs of their adherents to declare fealty to their Battlemaster: Sharn-Mes, the veteran Medor, Galbor Redcap, the female heroes Ayfa and Skathe, Tetrol Bonecrusher, Betularn White-Hand, and—newly accoladed in place of the defunct Bles and Nukalavee—Fafnor Ice-Jaws and Karbree the Worm.

The redcap scuttled under chairs and over tables, hiding in every possible nook and cranny, trying always to make it to the door or to the wainscotting, but somehow Cord was always there first to drive it back.

Medor, Ayfa, Galbor Redcap, Skathe, Nukalavee the Skinless, Tetrol Bonecrusher, Bles Four-Fang, Betularn of the White Hand, and finally Sharn-Mes all accepted plaudits and stood down unchallenged.

If you did, you would not have fought back when the redcaps threat­ened to overwhelm us.

There, the redcaps underwent their primitive life-cycles, lowering barriers across the road after dark, arresting drunks, and generally making themselves obstreperous.