Yellowlegs: Definition and part of speech

Yellowlegs

  1. n. Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; — called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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