单词 | high-holder |
释义 | high-holdern. U.S. Now rare. The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus; = high-hole n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes auratus (golden-wing) goldenwing1785 high-hole1808 high-holder1813 yellow-shafted woodpecker1822 yellowhammer1826 pigeon woodpecker1844 wake-up1844 yellow-shafted flicker1855 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. Index High-holder. 1857 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1856: Agric. 145 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 65, Pt. 4) XVI The golden-winged wood-pecker called..‘High Holder’..in other parts. 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 622/1 The pigeon-hawk..is about the size of our common flicker, or high-holder. 1939 Boys' Life June 45/1 I also showed them how to make..houses for woodpeckers, high-holders, yellow hammers or flickers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813 |
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