redstreak

English

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red +‎ streak

Noun

redstreak (plural redstreaks)

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

     the Summer and the Winter, the Yellow and the Red , and the more green Redstreak

2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

References

• “redstreak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.