Definitions for throstle

throstle thros·tle

Spelling: [thros-uh l]
IPA: /ˈθrɒs əl/

Throstle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in throstle (ehlorstt).

Definitions for throstle

noun

  1. British (chiefly Literary) . the song thrush.
  2. Obsolete. a machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., in which the twisting and winding are simultaneous and continuous.

Origin of throstle

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch drossel, German Drossel; akin to Old Norse thrǫstr, Latin turdus thrush

Examples for throstle

throstle and skylark to be admired must be heard at a distance.

Barbara was nineteen, and she had a voice which for gaiety and sweetness was like that of a throstle.

We'll find a green brae by a babblin' burn aneath a snawy hawthorn, whaur the throstle sings an' the blackbird whustles.

In this way, they were, strictly speaking, rivals of the throstle doubling frame more than the spinning mule.

You'll niver hear a throstle i' front o' a robin, nor a robin i' front o' a blackbird.

If the throstle hen kens nae the mottled lover that sings to her, what other bird o' the wood can come to the knowledge?

Last Wednesday afternoon I was taking a country walk, when all at once my eye was suddenly caught by a throstle.

Yellow hair at her, and eyes like the sea, and a voice same as the throstle!

I wonder if even a throstle would not get out of tune were it sentenced to life-long captivity?

Upon the seaside sand-hills it is interesting to observe how ingeniously the throstle deals with the snails.

Word Value for throstle
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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