Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fieldfare, Turdus pilaris; also, the mistlethrush, T. viscivorus.
- noun The green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The missel thrush.
- noun The fieldfare.
- noun The green woodpecker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
missel thrush . - noun The
fieldfare . - noun The
green woodpecker .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wol aw listen to th 'stormcock' at pipes up o'th top;
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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I was pleased to see the bold, masterful missel thrush, the stormcock as it is often called; but this bird breeds and sings in the early spring, when the weather is still tempestuous, and had long been silent when we saw it.
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I was pleased to see the bold, masterful missel thrush, the stormcock as it is often called; but this bird breeds and sings in the early spring, when the weather is still tempestuous, and had long been silent when we saw it.
An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913
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I was pleased to see the bold, masterful missel thrush, the stormcock as it is often called; but this bird breeds and sings in the early spring, when the weather is still tempestuous, and had long been silent when we saw it.
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Wol aw listen to th 'stormcock at pipes up oth top;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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It's true, the mistle thrush (or stormcock), a bird of open country, isn't common in Britain's cities.
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