Sc. and north. dial. Also 7 yourling, 9 yorline, yeorling, yarlin, yerlin. [Variant of YOWLRING; cf. YOLDRING.] A yellow-hammer.
1679. Lovell, Indic. Univ., 31. A Yellow-hammer or Yourling.
1789. D. Davidson, Seasons, 151. Should at his feet a scared yorlin bir.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, Kilmeny, i. It was only to heire the yorline syng.
1861. Atkinson, Brit. Birds’ Eggs, 50. I used to hear in Berwickshire, that ‘The Brock, the Toad, and the Yellow Yeörling, Get a drap o’ the Deil’s bluid ilka May morning.’
