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plural yoldrings
(British, dialectal, obsolete) A bird, the yellowhammer. quotations
But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], page 43