Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The bearded tit. Panurus or Calamophilus biarmicus, a common bird of Europe and Asia: so called from frequenting reeds. Also called reed-pheasant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.

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  • noun A bird, the bearded tit.

Etymologies

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reed +‎ -ling

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Examples

  • Here a brook-sparrow or sedge-reedling takes up his quarters in the spring, and chatters on, day and night, through the summer.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • At the end of the hedge which is near a brook, a sedge-reedling takes up his residence in the spring.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • On the contrary, the sedge-reedling, which chatters side by side with the nightingale, is the first of all his kind to return to the neighbourhood.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The latter sings in one bush and the sedge-reedling in another close together.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • A cuckoo called from the top of the tallest birch, and a nightingale and a brook-sparrow (or sedge-reedling) were audible together in the common on the opposite side of the road.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Over the stormy waters a band of brown bank-martins wheel hastily to and fro, and from the osiers the loud chirp of the sedge-reedling rises above the buffet of the wind against the ear, and the splashing of the waves.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The furze itself became a broad surface of gold, beautiful to look down upon, with islands of tenderest birch green interspersed, and willows in which the sedge-reedling chattered.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Part at least of it was shallow, for a dead branch blown from an elm projected above the water, and to it came a sedge-reedling for a moment.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The moment the nightingale ceases the sedge-reedling lifts his voice, which is a very penetrating one, and in the silence of the night may be heard some distance.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The sedge-reedling is so fond of sedges, and reeds, and thick undergrowth, that though you hear it perpetually within a few yards it is not easy to see one.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

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  • A small Eurasian marsh bird, the male of which has moustache-like black markings.

    January 8, 2008