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yowlring

yowlring is the alternative form 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...

Forms of yowlring

pluralyowlrings

Questions about yowlring

What is yowlring the alternative form of?
Yowlring is the alternative form of yoldring.

Words near yowlring in the dictionary

  1. yowleys
  2. yowlin'
  3. yowling
  4. yowlingly
  5. yowlings
  6. yowlring
  7. yowlrings
  8. yowls
  9. yowly
  10. Yown
  11. Yowrie

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