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rain bird

Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zo["o]l.) The European green woodpecker ( Picus viridis syn. Genius viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.

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Rain Bird

Rain Bird Corporation is a large international privately held manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services that helps create and maintain verdant landscapes, golf courses, sports fields, and productive agricultural crops while minimizing water consumption. Rain Bird is headquartered in Azusa, California, with offices and manufacturing facilities in Tucson, Arizona, Mexico, France, and China. Rain Bird Corporation is known for selling its irrigation products and services in over 130 countries worldwide.

Rain Bird (legend)

The Rain Bird in Native American legend was a bird who brought rain. A Rain Bird design is used in some Native American pottery. The name was borrowed by the Rain Bird Corporation to name their irrigation sprinkler. The Rain Bird was known by the coastal Native Americans as the bringer of life. The reason behind it was that Rain (The bringer of life) brought life to the coastal Natives by watering their plants and hence, giving food & water to the animals they hunted.

Category:Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America Category:Legendary birds

Usage examples of "rain bird".

Outside I could hear the dim buzz of a lawn mower, followed by the pit-pit-pit of Henry's Rain Bird, firing jets of water across the newly trimmed grass.