| 单词 | yellow yoldring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow yoldring The yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella (family Emberizidae). Also yellow yoldring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza citrinella (yellow-hammer) yellowhammer1538 yellow ham1544 yowlring1544 goldhammer1611 yellow-pate1612 yellow ambird1657 yorling1679 yoldring1699 goldspink1785 yowley1797 yite1812 devil's bird1837 writing master1840 ammer1843 goldie1865 1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor ii. 19 The Common Linet, the Bunting, the Goldfinch, the Thistle Cock, the Yellow Yeldring. 1714 J. Bayne Short Introd. Lat. Gram. 106 A yellow Yeldring, Emberiza flava. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Yold-ring, a yellow-hammer. North. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Yeldring..Children..often take the bare gorbals, or unfledged young, of this bird, and [etc.]. 1810 R. Tannahill in Scots Mag. Jan. 48/1 While weary yeldrins seem to wail Their little nestlings torn. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 37 Three yaldrin's eggs. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ii. 43 You heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring. 1865 A. Smith A. Hagart's Househ. v The yellow yelderin builds in dry banks. 1928 Folk-lore 39 22 Near the house on another side is a field called ‘The Yeldernaker’, i.e. the field of the yeldring or yellow-hammer, long unknown there. 1992 G. Legman in V. Randolph & G. Legman Roll Me in your Arms xii. 101 This metaphor refers to the bird, the yoldring or yellowhammer or finch. < as lemmas |
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