Definitions for whinchats

whinchats whin·chat

Spelling: [hwin-chat, win-]
IPA: /ˈʰwɪnˌtʃæt, ˈwɪn-/

Whinchats is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in whinchats (achhinstw).

Definitions for whinchats

noun

  1. a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.

Origin of whinchats

First recorded in 1670-80; whin + chat

Examples for whinchats

The furze-chat, mentioned by C. Brown, is the Saxicola rubetra, commonly also called the whinchat.

It is difficult to put oneself in the place of the Stonechat or of the whinchat.

The redstart and nightingale are most subject to this; it sometimes also happens to the fauvette, and also to the whinchat.

Some greenfinches, a whinchat or two, almost no pipits or larks, and very few sparrows.

It is not so tender as the whinchat, some few of them occasionally stopping in this country all the winter.

Incidentally we may remark that the whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.

The whinchat may be distinguished at a considerable distance by the white streak over the eye.

Mr Harvie Brown saw it at Aultbea in 1884, more abundantly than the whinchat.

The same is true of the whinchat, and one would scarcely expect to find this bird attacking Buntings as it sometimes does.

Word Value for whinchats
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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