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yowlring
yowlring dial. Also 6 yowlo-, youlw-, 6–7 yowle-, 9 youlring, yo(u)rin, yowring. See also yoldring, yorling. [f. yowlo(w), yellow a. + ring n.] A yellow-hammer.1544 [see yellow-ham]. 1591 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 70 Larkes and yowloringes. 1595 Ibid. 104 Sixtine sparrowes and youlwringes. ...
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yeldring
ˈyoldring, ˈyeldring Sc. and north. dial. Also youldring, yowdring, yoldrin, yaldrin, -an, yeld(e)rin, yieldrin. [Variant of yowlring.] (Also yellow y.) A yellow-hammer.1790 Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Yold-ring, a yellow-hammer. North. a 1810 Tannahill Midges dance aboon the burn ii, While weary ye...
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yorling
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, I...
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yellow-hammer
ˈyellow-ˌhammer, -ˈammer Forms: 6 yelambre, 7 yelamber, yellow-hamer, 7, 9 dial. -amber, 9 -ammer, dial. -ommer, -omber, -homber, 6– yellow-hammer. [In the earliest recorded form, yelambre, app. representing OE. *ᵹeolo-amore = ᵹeolo yellow + amore ‘scorellus’ (unidentified), corresp. to OHG. amero (...
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