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Webster 1913 Edition
Yellowlegs
Yel′low-legsˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
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.