hickway
hickway is the alternative form of hickwall.
Meaning of hickwall
Noun
hickwall (plural hickwalls)
- A lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
- A European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).
- […]at Shenington for example, the churchwardens paid 4d for each Hickwall (green woodpecker) killed, but there is no record of any payment for weasels, which were worth 3d at Bodicote. One would like to know if Hickwalls were rare at Bodicote and weasels at Shenington, or if in fact they were not...1975, Banbury Historical Society, Cake & Cockhorse, volume 6, page 126
- A blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus.
- Tomtit, Blue Tomtit, Nun, Blue-cap, Blue-bonnet, Billy-biter, Hickwall, Blue Mope. One of the most impudent of an impudent lot.1861, John Christopher Atkinson, British Birds' Eggs and Nests, Popularly Described, page 43
Forms of hickway
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- What is hickway the alternative form of?
- Hickway is the alternative form of hickwall.
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