blackbird

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force

   “At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”.

2. 2
   noun

   common black European thrush

3. 3
   noun

   any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

4. 4
   noun

   A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.

From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.

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