| 单词 | rinding-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrinding-bird rinding-bird n. [compare also English regional rind-bird (recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Sussex in the 20th cent. in this sense)] English regional (Sussex) (now rare) the wryneck, Jynx torquilla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck) wryneck1585 jynxa1657 yunx1694 barley-bird1766 long tongue1822 cuckoo's mate1831 snake-bird1831 pea-bird1838 writheneck1840 rinding-bird1849 weet-bird1863 mackerel bird1879 felling bird1883 turkey-bird1885 1849 A. E. Knox Ornith. Rambles Sussex 212 Wryneck, Yunx torquilla. Provincial, Rinding Bird. One of the few local epithets worth recording. So termed in many parts of Sussex from its appearance in the spring being supposed to indicate the proper time for felling the oak trees, and removing the bark or rind from the trunks and branches. 1893 D. Jordan With Woodlanders & By Tide i. 19 The wryneck, or cuckoo's mate, or the rinding bird, as he is called by the bark-strippers or ‘bark flayers’, makes his pee-pee-peet heard in spring. c1924 M. Woodward How to enjoy Countryside iv. 36 Rinding-bird is a significant name... The name enshrines the notion that the wryneck appears in the spring at the proper time for felling trees, and rinding the bark. < as lemmas |
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