throstle

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  1. noun Any of various Old World thrushes, especially a song thrush.
  2. noun A machine formerly used for spinning fibers such as cotton or wool.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. The word and its cognates appear in diverse forms: (a) throstle, dial. also thrustle, thirstle, early modern English thrustel, thrustell, from Middle English throstle, throstel, throstelle, throstil, thrustle, thrustele, in comp. also threstel, thyrstylle, from Anglo-Saxon throstle = Middle Dutch drostel, droestel = Middle High German trostel, perhaps = Middle Latin turdēla, turdella, tordela, tordella (for *trzdēla ?); cf. (b) English throssel, throssil (in English merely another spelling of throstle as now pronounced); Anglo-Saxon throsle = Old Saxon throssela, throsla = Middle Dutch drossel, droessel, Dutch drossel = Middle Low German drosle, Low German *drossel, later G. drossel = Swedish Danish drossel, prob. assimilated (st later ss) from the forms of the preceding group, which are prob. diminutive of (c) Icelandic thröstr (thrast-) = Swedish trast = Norwegian trast, trost = Danish trost, a thrush, prob. = Latin turdus, turda (for *trzdus, *trzda ?), a thrush; these having prob. orig. initial s, (d) = Lithuanian strazdas, strazda, a thrush. Forms with a different terminal letter (perhaps altered from that of the preceding) appear in (e) English thrush, from Middle English thrushe, thrusche, thryshe, from Anglo-Saxon thrysce, thryssce, thrisce = Old High German drosea, a thrush (cf. Greek τρυγών (*τρυσγών ?), a dove); whence the diminutive (f) English dial. thrushel (cf. also thrusher and thrasher), Middle English *throshel, thrushil, thrusshil = Old High German droscela, Middle High German droschel, German dial. droschel, a thrush. If the forms in (e) were orig. identical with those in (c), then the forms in (f) were orig. identical with those in (a) and (b), and the whole set are reduced to one primitive form, represented by (c) or, with initial s, (d), and a diminutive of the same. This is one of few bird-names of wide native range in the Indo-European languages. (g) Cf. Old Bulgarian drozgŭ, Russian drozdŭ, a thrush. (h) Cf. French trâle, a throstle; from Teutonic
 

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