Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The long-tongue or wryneck, Iynx torquilla: so called from the long extensile tongue. See cut under wryneck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The wryneck.

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