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yeldrock

yeldrock 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 yeldrock

pluralyeldrocks

Questions about yeldrock

What is yeldrock the alternative form of?
Yeldrock is the alternative form of yeldrin.

Words near yeldrock in the dictionary

  1. Yeldhams
  2. yeldrin
  3. yeldring
  4. yeldrings
  5. yeldrins
  6. yeldrock
  7. yeldrocks
  8. Yele
  9. yelek
  10. yeleks
  11. Yelena

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeldrock (page history and authors); yeldrin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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