throstle
/ˈθɹɒsəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Throstell, with shrill Sharps; as purposely he song / T’awake the lustlesse Sunne; or chyding, that so long"
- "The throstle is by some believed to be the finest singing bird in Britain, on account of the sweetness, variety, and continuance of its melody."
- "O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood / To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd"
- "[T]hro' wild March the throstle calls, […]"
- "THE RING THROSTLE. / A Throstle under the above title has been recently introduced from America, the principal novel feature of which, is a substitute for the flyer and heavy spindle of the common throstle, and for the cone or cape, and the barrel tube of the Danforth throstle."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: throstel, þrostle, *þrostlā, *trosdos