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ˈredwing, red-wing
1. Ornith.
a. A European thrush belonging to one of the subspecies of Turdus musicus (or T. iliacus), distinguished by red patches on the flanks and under sides of the wings.
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc iii. 157 He undertook among other things to send..a pair of Phœnicopteri, or Red-wings, birds so-called. 1674Ray Catal. Eng. Birds 86 The Thrush-kind... The Redwing or Swine-pipe: Turdus Iliacus. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 494 The orange-grey Turdus, with a white breast, the Redwing; this is smaller than the common thrush. 1771G. White Selborne xlv, Redwings are some of the first birds that suffer with us in severe weather. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 414 The Redwing is a migrative species, coming to us in great flocks about the latter end of September. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 332 A coppice of birch, among which darted the redwing and white wagtail. 1894A. Newton Dict. Birds 778 The notes of the Redwing are indeed pleasing in places where no better songster exists. 1954D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 192 To these islands the Continental redwing is a winter visitor. 1977J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants ii. 47 Redwings..eat the fleshy receptacles [of rose hips].
b. The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phœniceus) of North America.
1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. 474 The second sort [of blackbird] is the red wing, which is rather smaller than the first species. 1831Audubon Ornith. Biog. I. 348 As soon as spring makes its appearance, almost all the Redwings leave the Southern States. 1859Thoreau Autumn (1894) 68, I see..no red-wings for a long time. 1947Chicago Tribune 2 Sept. 7/3 The grackles and redwings also are having a high old time these days roaming around the country. 1974A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xi. 201 By the creek, where..redwings scatter.
c. The red-winged francolin of South Africa.
1878T. J. Lucas Camp Life & Sport S. Afr. vi. 85 We had a sprinkling of ‘red wing’, but the game grey partridge was more predominant. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 292 No fewer than ten [species are]..found within the limits of the Cape Colony, Francolinus levaillanti, the ‘Redwing’ of English settlers, being especially numerous. 1962Mackworth-Praed & Grant Birds Southern Third Afr. 208 Red-wing... Top of head brown with darker centres to feathers. [Cf. quot. 1867 in 3.]
2. transf. A small sailing-boat with red sails.
1897Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 7/1 Every kind of craft is likely to find representation, from the big racers to the little red⁓wings with their rosy sails.
3. attrib., as red-wing blackbird, redwing fieldfare, redwing partridge, redwing thrush.
1767G. White Selborne x, The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together. 1828Fleming Brit. Anim. 65 Turdus iliacus. Redwing Thrush. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 185 The Redwing Thrush..is a common winter visitant in Britain. 1867Layard Birds S. Afr. 270 Francolinus Levaillantii... Red-wing-Partridge of Colonists. 1883Century Mag. Sept. 653/1 Among the most common birds are the meadow-lark.., the red-wing blackbird [etc.]. |