missel thrush

[mis-uh l]

noun

mistle thrush.

Origin of missel thrush

First recorded in 1765–75

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Examples from the Web for missel thrush

"Send for the weasel, then," said a missel-thrush, also perching in the hawthorn.
Wood Magic|Richard Jefferies
In the elder thicket little chaffinches were singing, and a missel-thrush gave late in the year a song of the April weather.
Folle-Farine|Ouida
The nest was in a birch visible from the garden, and that season seemed to be the missel-thrush's.
Nature Near London|Richard Jefferies
By the end of September the Missel-thrush has gathered into flocks of considerable size.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires|Charles Dixon

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

noun

a variant spelling of mistle thrush

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missel thrush

noun

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missel thrush

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