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Definition of Hickwall
1. n. The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
Definition of Hickwall
1. Noun. (UK dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker (''Dendrocopus minor'') of Europe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hickwall
1. the green woodpecker [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hickwall
Literary usage of Hickwall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1808)
"... by hickwall, out of Paroquet, ... by hickwall, out of Paroquet, 4 yrs old, /st
2ib 3 43 Mr Harris's bf, ..."
2. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1809)
"... by hickwall, Mr. Harris's bf 3 yrs old, 6st. 2ft 2 3 dr out of Paroquet, 4
yrs old, 7st. ... ch. m. by hickwall, out of Paroquet, 5 yrs old, 8st. ..."
3. Original Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1876)
"The greater spotted woodpecker or hickwall, ... The words hickle and hickwall
are clearly the same. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... or greater spotted woodpecker, the ' hickwall,' whilst modern ornithologists
apply this term to ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"... figures alphabet ; while the hickwall, or under almost sparrow green woodpecker
every letter of the the stickleback abo rank high on the list. ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... and to this may plausibly be traced ' hickwall,' nowadays used in some parts
of the country, and the older ..."
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