ˈyorlin(g Sc. and north. dial.
Also 7 yourling, 9 yorline, yeorling, yarlin, yerlin.
[Variant of yowlring; cf. yoldring.]
A yellow-hammer.
| 1679 Lovell Indic. Univ. 31 A Yellow-hammer or Yourling. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 151 Should at his feet a scared yorlin bir. 1813 Hogg Queen's Wake, Kilmeny i, It was only to heire the yorline syng. 1861 Atkinson Brit. Birds' Eggs 50, I used to hear in Berwickshire, that ‘The Brock, the Toad, and the Yellow Yeörling, Get a drap o' the Deil's bluid ilka May morning.’ |