subs. (West Indian).—A large mosquito.
1843. W. T. PORTER, ed., The Big Bear of Arkansas, etc., p. 119. In the summer time the lakes and snakes … musketoes and GALLINIPPERS, buffalo gnats and sandflies … prevented the Injins from gwine through the country.
1888. Lippincott’s Magazine. I thought the GALLINIPPERS would fly away with me before the seed ticks had sucked all my blood.
