yellow legger (yeloleger)

1. The yellowlegs. 2. A fisherman from Eastham. [Province town, Ma achusetts.] yellow-line (yel'ō-lin), a. Having yellow lines or streaks: as, the yellow - line quaker, Orthos i a macilenta, a British noctuid moth. yellowly (yel'ō-li), adv. [ IMG:content-2687.jpg:[graphic] omber, yellow yoldring, yellow yorling, yellow yowley (and with variants yeldring, yeldrock ); also scribbling lark and writing lark (from the scratchy markings of its eggs); and by various other local or provincial names, as yite. 2. In the United States, a local misnomer of lowne . the flicker, or golden-winged woodpecker, Co laptes auratus (see cut under flicker2 ). No bird much like or congeneric with the true yellowhammer exists in North America; but popular ignorance would have it otherwise, and pitched upon this woodpecker as a subject for the name, or perhaps the name was given because the bird is extensively yellow and "hammers" trees. The European yellowhammer resembles and is congeneric with the ortolan of that country, Emberiza hortulana ; and the United States bird which really looks something like the yellowhammer is the bobolink in the fall, when it is called reed - bird , rice - bird , and ortolan . 3t. A gold coin; a yellow boy. [Old slang.] Is that he that has gold enough? would I had some of his yellow - hammers ! The town of Aster a bad, with its picturesque towers and ramparts gleaming yellowly in the noonday sun. O'Donovan, Merv, v.