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yoldrings

yoldrings is the plural of yoldring.

Meaning of yoldring

Noun

yoldring (plural yoldrings)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bird, the yellowhammer.
    • 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...

Questions about yoldrings

What is yoldrings the plural of?
Yoldrings is the plural of yoldring.

Words near yoldrings in the dictionary

  1. yolden
  2. yoldiid
  3. yoldiids
  4. yoldrin
  5. yoldring
  6. yoldrings
  7. yole
  8. yoles
  9. yoleven
  10. yolk
  11. yolk plug

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