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throstle [ˈθrɒsəl] n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a poetic name for thrush1 esp the song thrush 2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a spinning machine for wool or cotton in which the fibres are twisted and wound continuously [Old English; related to Old Saxon throsla, Old Norse thröstr, Middle High German drostel] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Bird Doffer genus Turdus mavis Mule twist Ring spinner song thrush spinning machine Thirstle Throstle cock thrush Thrustle Turdus Turdus philomelos Water tu twist | There's my little lad Aaron, he's got a gift--he can sing a tune off straight, like a throstle. It was at the dawn of day in the merry Maytime, when hedgerows are green and flowers bedeck the meadows; daisies pied and yellow cuckoo buds and fair primroses all along the briery hedges; when apple buds blossom and sweet birds sing, the lark at dawn of day, the throstle cock and cuckoo; when lads and lasses look upon each other with sweet thoughts; when busy housewives spread their linen to bleach upon the bright green grass. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy. |
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