Meaning

3 senses
  1. Any of several birds distinguished by their appearance in England at the time of barley-sowing.

    A yellow wagtail (Motacilla spp.).

  2. A wryneck (Jynx spp.').

  3. (obsolete)A Eurasian siskin.

Forms

plural: barley-birds
Singularbarley-bird
Pluralbarley-birds

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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