missel thrush

[ mis-uhl ]

Origin of missel thrush

1
First recorded in 1765–75

Words Nearby missel thrush

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How to use missel thrush in a sentence

  • "Send for the weasel, then," said a missel-thrush, also perching in the hawthorn.

    Wood Magic | Richard Jefferies
  • The missel-thrush did as he was bid, and in about half-an-hour the young prince approached the palace.

    Wood Magic | Richard Jefferies
  • "It is selling our honour—making a bargain and a market of our ancestors' courage," said the missel-thrush.

    Wood Magic | Richard Jefferies
  • So when David saw his chance of being a missel-thrush again he called out to me quickly: "Don't drop the letter!"

    The Little White Bird | J. M. Barrie
  • One of them was a noble bird, such as I had never seen before, of very fine bright plumage, and larger than a missel-thrush.

    Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon Phelps

British Dictionary definitions for missel thrush

missel thrush

/ (ˈmɪsəl) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of mistle thrush

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