Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella. See cut under
yellowhammer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The European yellow-hammer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
yellowhammer
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Examples
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He pronounced it ah-yite, as they do in the playgrounds, and probably even at the Sojourner Truth School.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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He pronounced it ah-yite, as they do in the playgrounds, and probably even at the Sojourner Truth School.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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Expecting to get the answer "Carnivorous" (as it bore on the lesson), a teacher asked his class for an example of a bird of prey, and among other answers he got was "A yellow yite."
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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Towards the yellow-hammer, or yellow-yite -- bird of beautiful plumage though it be -- because it is the subject of an unaccountable superstitious notion, which credits it with drinking a drop of the devil's blood every May morning, the children of Scotland cherish no inconsiderable contempt, which finds expression in the rhyme: --
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellowhammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellow-hammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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"All yite," said the little darkey, and she sat down on the floor to prepare her child for a coat of whitewash; but she had not yet succeeded in convincing the doll of the importance of the operation when her attention was aroused by a dog just outside of the door.
What Might Have Been Expected Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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The _yellow yite_, or yellow hammer, was held in just the opposite estimation, and although one of the prettiest of birds, their nests were remorselessly harried, and their young often cruelly killed.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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Papillons du Nord et durSud Bienvenue au yite Papillons du nordaet du sud.
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Papillons du Nord et durSud Bienvenue au yite Papillons du nordaet du sud.
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