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thrushel Now dial.|ˈθrʌʃəl|
Also 5 thruschyl, thrusshill, 9 thrishell (Devon).
[A derivative of thrush n.1, prob. dim.; cf. OHG. drôscala, dim. of drôsca, MHG. drôschele, dial. droschel, druschel, drouschel. Dialectally these forms tend to fall together with variants of throstle and Ger. drossel.]
A name, now local, of the thrush or song-thrush.
c1430Lydg., Thruschylcok [see throstle-cock]. 1499Promp. Parv. (ed. Pynson), Thrusshill or thrustyll, merula. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Wordbk. 441 Thrushel, same as Throstle: Bridgnorth. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 3 (Song Thrush) Thrusher (Berks and Bucks), Dirsh (Somerset), Thrushfield (Salop), Thrushel or Thrustle (Salop), Thirstle (Devon, Cornwall, Salop). |