ˈthrostle-cock
The male throstle or song-thrush; dial. the male missel-thrush.
| c 1300 Thrush & Night. 121 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 55 Threstelkok, thou hauest wrong. c 1386 Chaucer Sir Thopas 58 (Harl.) The þrostilcok [v.rr. thrustel-, -il-] maad eek his lay. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 203 The thruschylcok nor the feldfare. 1530 Palsgr. 281/1 Thrustell cocke, mauluis. a 1600 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xli. 5 The thissell-cok [sic] cryis On louers vha lyis. 1604 Drayton Owle 220 The warbling Throstle Cocke. 1825 Jamieson, Thrissel-cock, the Missel-thrush or Shrite, Turdus viscivorus, Gesner; the Throstle-cock of the North of England. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 169 A throstle-cock beside him broke Into the sweetest of his song. |