'Yellowshins' definitions:
Definition of 'Yellowshins'
From: GCIDE
- Yellowshanks \Yel"low*shanks`\, Yellowshins \Yel"low*shins`\, n. (Zool.) See Yellolegs. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'yellowshins'
From: GCIDE
- Yellowlegs \Yel"low*legs`\, n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2. [1913 Webster]