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noun
Northern English: a song thrush
A throstle sang from the top of the ash tree.
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throstles
Etymology
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.