Definition of "yite" []

• The yellowhammer (noun)

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• "He pronounced it ah-yite, as they do in the playgrounds, and probably even at the Sojourner Truth School."
• "Towards the yellow-hammer, or yellow-yite -- bird of beautiful plumage though it be -- because it is the subject of an unaccountable superstitious notion, which credits it with drinking a drop of the devil's blood every May morning, the children of Scotland cherish no inconsiderable contempt, which finds expression in the rhyme: --"
• "Expecting to get the answer "Carnivorous" (as it bore on the lesson), a teacher asked his class for an example of a bird of prey, and among other answers he got was "A yellow yite.""