Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The green woodpecker, yaffle, or popinjay, Gecinus viridis. Compare laughing-bird.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle.

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  • Firefighters managed to do the job with a high-hoe, saving the smaller barn.

    Ottawa Sun 2009

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