yoldring

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noun

A bird, the yellowhammer.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounyoldring (plural yoldrings)

plural yoldrings

  1. UKdialectalobsoleteA bird, the yellowhammer.

    But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.

    1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 43
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Chicago

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