Definitions for redstart

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redstart red·start

Spelling: [red-stahrt]

IPA: /ˈrɛdˌstɑrt/

Redstart is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in redstart (aderrstt).

Definitions for redstart

noun

1. any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
2. any of several fly-catching, New World warblers, especially Setophaga ruticilla (American redstart) having black and white plumage with reddish-orange patches.

Origin of redstart

1560-70; red¹ + obsolete start tail (Middle English start, stert tail, handle, Old English steort tail; akin to Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr)

Examples for redstart

It was a redstart nest without doubt, but who owned the baby?

Had, then, an owl paid a twilight visit, and could a redstart be surprised?

In the coppice just above Bell Hagg the redstart was very common.

The structure on the apple bough was the redstart homestead.

I had five, but I swopped two of them with Frank Wilson for a redstart's.'

In the treetops a golden warbler and a redstart were singing.

The redstart, one of our summer visitors, is a bird which can never be mistaken.

By this means Mrs. Pearson last summer found a redstart's nest.

The statement that the redstart is a mimic is to be met with in many books about birds.

There was no doubt about his being a redstart baby, as I had been convinced from the first.