birdlime

A similar survey of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow (which is also on his list of works cited) discovers these omissions from the argot of Mountjoy Prison: "chucked" (hanged), "birdlime" (jail sentence), "topped" (hanged), "dobying" (washing), "lobbywatching" (staking out), "nick" and "lift"(for which Wall gives "arrest," whereas they also mean "steal"), "ferocious begging" (robbing), and "gra sshopper" (informer).

Un bore aeth i'r Bala i brynu glud adar - yr hyn a elwir yn Saesneg yn "birdlime." Aeth haenen ar ganghennau'r hen dderwen fawr wrth y ty.

Birdlime and vitriol, that's what big herons are made of.

A solution proposed by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, that birdlime should be put on the branches of the trees was equally impracticable: the sparrows had left the trees for the iron girders.

We boiled it till the Monday, and it turned into an adhesive stronger than birdlime, and entangled us both.

Groups like Friends of Limesticks claim that birdlime is a traditional method of hunting, and several politicians from Larnaca and Famagusta districts protect hunters' interests.

At the sight of my canoe, dozens of wading birds took flight, leaving only whitish slicks of birdlime and a mosaic of delicate tracks on the muddy bottom.