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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flick·er, n.
 1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
 2. Zool. The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
    The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.   --Thoureau.
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