woodhack
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woodhack (plural woodhacks)
- The yaffle
- c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 82, lines 418–419:
- The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’,
Horsly, as he had the mur; […]