throstle – English noun declension

English noun forms of throstle

Noun: throstle
Singularthrostle
Pluralthrostles

Sample Sentences

  • The Throstell, with shrill Sharps; as purposely he song / T’awake the lustlesse Sunne; or chyding, that so long [1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 13”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 214:]
  • The throstle is by some believed to be the finest singing bird in Britain, on account of the sweetness, variety, and continuance of its melody. [1804, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich, James Mease, The Domestic Encyclopaedia: or, A Dictionary of Facts and Useful Knowledge, page 115:]
  • O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood / To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd [1802, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, lines 25-26:]
  • [T]hro' wild March the throstle calls, […] [1851 March, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “To the Queen”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, page 1:]
  • THE RING THROSTLE. / A Throstle under the above title has been recently introduced from America, the principal novel feature of which, is a substitute for the flyer and heavy spindle of the common throstle, and for the cone or cape, and the barrel tube of the Danforth throstle. [1836, James Montgomery, The Theory and Practice of Cotton Spinning, or, The Carding and Spinning Master’s Assistant, page 223:]

Etymology

From Middle English throstle, throstel, from Old English þrostle, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā, possibly altered from or a diminutive of *þurstaz, related to *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos. See: Middle English Nouns 'throstel', Old English Nouns 'þrostle'.

Verbs referencing "throstle"

Latvian Nouns strazds.