(informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
(informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
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(informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate States dollar during the US Civil War.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
A Scottish term for a treacherous pit, hollow, or waterlogged slough in a peat bog — the kind of soft, sucking ground that can swallow a boot whole and has claimed the unwary for centuries. Moss-hags are features of the Scottish uplands and the accounts of travellers, soldiers, and farmers who learned to read the ground carefully to avoid them. The term appears in Scottish literature and landscape writing as shorthand for wild, dangerous, uncultivated terrain.