The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flicker \Flick"er\, n.
The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
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(Zo["o]l.) The golden-winged woodpecker ( Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
--Thoureau.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of yellowhammer English)
Usage examples of "yellow-hammer".
The singing linnets come in parties, the happy greenfinches, the streaked yellow-hammers, as if any one had delicately painted them in separate streaks, and not with a wash of colour, the brown buntings, chaffinches--out they come from the hazel copses, where the nuts are dropping, and the hedge berries turning red, and every one finds something to his liking.