Definitions For Hickwall

Noun

HICKWALL (plural HICKWALLs) (UK, regional) The lesser spotted woodpecker, dryobates minor. (UK, regional) The European green woodpecker, picus viridis. (UK, regional, archaic) The blue tit, cyanistes caeruleus.

References

{{R:Webster 1913}} {{R:OED}}

Alternative forms

hickway

Etymology

From Middle English hyghwhele; also highwale (1500s) or highawe (1600s). Rarely attested before the sixteenth century, making the original form difficult to trace. Probably imitative of the bird's cry; compare yaffle (“green woodpecker”). Possibly influenced by witwall, woodwall.

Anagrams

wallhick