† wing-thrush Obs.
[? Arising from a misunderstanding of LG. *wîngaardsvogel, weingartdrossel, f. wîngaard vineyard, winyard + vogel bird, drossel thrush. Perhaps never current; cf. winnard.]
The redwing, Turdus iliacus.
| 1544 Turner Avium Præcip. I 7, Tertium genus [Turdorum] ab Anglis a wyngthrushe, et à Germanis eyn weingaerdsuoegel nuncupatur. Hic turdus..maculas habet latiusculas rubras. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Litorne, a birde of the bignesse of a blacke bird called a wing thrushe. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Litorne. |