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redshire

redshire is the obsolete form of red-short.

Meaning of red-short

Adjective

red-short (not comparable)

  1. hot short; brittle when red-hot; said of certain kinds of iron

Forms of redshire

comparativemore redshire
superlativemost redshire

Questions about redshire

What is redshire the obsolete form of?
Redshire is the obsolete form of red-short.

Words near redshire in the dictionary

  1. Redshaws
  2. redshift
  3. redshifted
  4. redshifting
  5. redshifts
  6. redshire
  7. redshirt
  8. redshirted
  9. redshirting
  10. redshirts
  11. redshort

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redshire (page history and authors); red-short (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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