Sc. and north. dial. Also youldring, yowdring, yoldrin, yaldrin, -an, yeld(e)rin, yieldrin. [Variant of YOWLRING.] (Also yellow y.) A yellow-hammer.

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1790.  Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Yold-ring, a yellow-hammer. North.

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a. 1810.  Tannahill, Midges dance aboon the burn, ii. While weary yeldrins seem to wail Their little nestlings torn.

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1815.  G. Beattie, John o’ Arnha’ (1826), 37. Three yaldrin’s eggs.

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1820.  Scott, Abbot, xvii. You heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.

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1865.  Alex. Smith, A. Hagart’s Househ., v. The yellow yelderin builds in dry banks.

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  Yole, early var. of YAWL v.1

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a. 1500[?].  Chester Plays (Shaks. Soc.), xiii. 229. See, ffellowe, for cokes soule! This freeke begines to reme and yole.

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