ˈjar-bird
[jar n.1 8.]
Local name of the Nut-hatch.
| 1768 G. White Selborne xvi. (1875) 60 My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with his bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar-bird... It proved to be the Sitta europæa (nuthatch). |