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yeldring

yeldring is the alternative form of yeldrin.

Meaning of yeldrin

Noun

yeldrin (plural yeldrins)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dated, dialectal) The yellowhammer.
    • Bless the bramble and its berries —nor can we conjecture why it should be “a maltreated shrub,” any more than why the “Yellow Yeldrin” should in Scotland—and we believe in England too—be a maltreated bird.1834, “The moral of flowers”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 35 (review of The Moral of Flowers by Rebecca Hey), page 811

Forms of yeldring

pluralyeldrings

Questions about yeldring

What is yeldring the alternative form of?
Yeldring is the alternative form of yeldrin.

Words near yeldring in the dictionary

  1. Yelder
  2. Yelders
  3. Yeldham
  4. Yeldhams
  5. yeldrin
  6. yeldring
  7. yeldrings
  8. yeldrins
  9. yeldrock
  10. yeldrocks
  11. Yele

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