Obs. [f. WAGTAIL sb.] intr. To flutter.

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1606.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. IV. I. Tropheis, 137. Even as a paire of busie chattering Pies … feel a chill fear, From bush to bush, wag-tayling here and there.

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c. 1620.  Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 118. From bush to bush they in a panick feare, Wagtayling goe.

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