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Throstle

noun

A spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously.

Common Old World thrush noted for its song. Synonyms: mavis, song thrush, Turdus philomelos.

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"Throstle" Quotes from Famous Books

... They are with me When, deep within the bosom of the forest, Thy mourning melody Abroad into the sky, thou, throstle! pourest. When the young sunbeams glance among the trees— When on the ear comes the soft song of bees— When every branch has its own favorite bird And songs of summer from each thicket heard!— Where the ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... the throstle sings Amid the merry May; The throstle signs but to my ear; My heart is ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... clothed with verdure, And the woods grew up and flourished; Leaves on trees and grass in meadows. In the trees the birds were singing, Loudly sang the cheery throstle; In the tree-tops called ...

— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous

... rather rare and yet they say you'll hear him there At Kew, at Kew in lilac time (and oh, so near to London!) The linnet and the throstle, too, and after dark the long halloo And golden-eyed TU-WHIT, TU WHOO of owls that ...

— Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ • Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes