Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small insectivorous birds of the genus Saxicola of Eurasia and Africa, especially S. rubicola, which has a black head and chestnut underparts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several different Old World chats, belonging to the genera Saxicola and (especially) Pratincola; a kind of bushchat: applied to three different English birds, and extended, as a book-name, to several others of the above genera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small, active, and very common European singing bird (
Pratincola rubicola ); -- called alsochickstone ,stonechacker ,stonechatter ,stoneclink ,stonesmith . - noun The wheatear.
- noun The blue titmouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small
Old World passerine birds of the genusSaxicola that feed oninsects .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast
Etymologies
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Examples
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I just learned that the stonechat is a bird, but this yarn speaks to me of bricks.
Extra-muros 2009
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I just learned that the stonechat is a bird, but this yarn speaks to me of bricks.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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The first shows a male who returns to give the cameraman a quick encore; the second shows a stonechat not eating a centipede.
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Actually we heard two cuckoos, a stonechat and curlews, saw a heron, skylarks and countless warblers and the sun shone for most of the run without getting too hot.
An uphill struggle 2009
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Actually we heard two cuckoos, a stonechat and curlews, saw a heron, skylarks and countless warblers and the sun shone for most of the run without getting too hot.
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The bird species confined to Réunion are the Réunion cuckoo-shrike (Coracina newtoni, EN), Réunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes), Réunion olive white-eye (Zosterops olivaceus), and Réunion bulbul (Hypsipetes borbonicus).
Mascarene forests 2008
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He makes a fist and hammers it against his skull to bring forth robin redbreast, stonechat, crow, while the rest of us raise our hands with what we think are the right answers and hold our breaths trying hard not to laugh.
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At the time when folk go hunting with the sparrow-hawk and with the hound, which seeks the lark and the stonechat and tracks the quail and the partridge, it happened that a knight of Thrace, a young and sprightly noble, esteemed for his prowess, had one day gone a-hawking quite close beside this tower; Bertrand was the knight's name.
Cligés. English de Troyes Chr��tien
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Bulbul, _hazari dastar_, the famous songster, is not a real _bulbul_, but either Alaudina or a stonechat.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Edolius occurs here, another stonechat has come in.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
asativum commented on the word stonechat
I'd have thought it was a very one-sided conversation.
December 20, 2007
bilby commented on the word stonechat
Haha :-) You can't get chat from a stone.
December 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stonechat
I didn't know conversations had feathers.
December 20, 2007
asativum commented on the word stonechat
Some conversations can certain get you down.
December 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stonechat
Yes, yes. Now I understand.
December 20, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word stonechat
Also stone-chatter, clocharet, chackart, chackie. It is believed in the north of Scotland that the toad covers the eggs of this bird during its absence from the nest. Some, indeed assert that the toad hatches the young stone-chatter.
May 10, 2011