Crossword-Solution: YELLOWLEGS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yellowlegs | 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. |
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| Shore bird with jaundiced limbs? | 1 answer |
| any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers, in which the legs are bright yellow | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TOERCLE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with YELLOWLEGS (5)
There were numbers of Yellowlegs breeding here; we were surprised to see them resting on trees or flying from one branch to another.
The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.
True enough, about the edges of the water were two or three solitary sandpipers, and at least half a dozen of the smaller yellowlegs,--two additions to my Florida list,--not to speak of a little blue heron and a green heron, the latter in most uncommonly green plumage.
Finding nothing new, though the sandpipers and yellowlegs were still present, with a very handsome little blue heron and plenty of blackbirds, I took the road again and went further, and an hour or two afterward, on getting back to the same place, was overtaken again by the horseman.
Then I crossed more planted fields,--climbing more barbed-wire fences, and stopping on the way to enjoy the sweetly quaint music of a little chorus of white-crowned sparrows,--and skirted once more the muddy shore of the cane-swamp, where the yellowlegs and sandpipers were still feeding.
Quotes with YELLOWLEGS (1)
Hide from fate all you like,” Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. “But it shall soon find you!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).