What is "redleg"

Redshank \Red"shank`\ (r?d"sh?nk`), n.

1. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. A common Old World limicoline bird ( Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank ( Totanus fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.

   2. The fieldfare.

2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
   --Spenser.

n. 1 A bird, the redshank. 2 A bird, the turnstone. 3 (cx Caribbean derogatory English) A member of a class of poor white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.

Redleg is a term used to refer to poor whites that live on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands. Their forebears came from Ireland, Scotland and the West of England.