throstle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Northern English: a song thrush

   A throstle sang from the top of the ash tree.

From Middle English throstle, throstel, from Old English þrostle, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā, possibly altered from or a diminutive of *þurstaz, related to *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.

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