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English
Noun
yoldring (plural yoldrings)
- (British, dialectal, obsolete) A bird, the yellowhammer.
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 John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 43:But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.