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Yellowlegs

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Yellowlegs'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​y/yellowlegs.html. 1828.