high-hole

[< Brit.dial. highhoe, haihow, the green woodpecker]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the flicker, Colaptes auratus.

Quotations

1793

Also shot two other beautiful birds called Hei-ho. . . .

1926

The tap-tapping of an industrious high-hole sounded loudly in the quiet.

1941

He had a golden-winged woodpecker that he had shot--he called it a high-hole.