单词 | woodwall |
释义 | woodwalln. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Oriolidae > genus Oriolus (oriole) > oriolus oriolus woodwalla1250 witwall1544 loriot1601 golden thrush1751 a1250 Owl & Night. (Cott. MS.) 1659 Þrusche & þrostle & wudewale [Jesus MS. wodewale] An fuheles boþe grete & smale. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 166 Escoter la note de l'oriol [gloss a wodewale]. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 Þe wilde laueroc ant wolc ant þe wodewale. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 658 In many places were nyghtyngales, Alpes, fynches, and wodewales, That in her swete song deliten. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 914 With popyniay, with nyghtyngale, With Chalaundre, and with wodewale. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 23 On fresh braunches syngith the wodwale. a1600 Robin Hood ii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 91 The woodweele sang, and wold not cease, Amongst the leaues a lyne. c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 972 The throstlecocke, the Nightingale, The laueracke & the wild woodhall. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. D4v That Bird which Holerius calls Galbula, that is, Woodwall. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Witwall vel Woodwall,..galbula. 2. A woodpecker; esp. the Green Woodpecker, Gecinus viridis: = witwall n. 2.In quot. 1490 tr. Old French bruhier buzzard. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) woodhackc1440 woodwall1490 woodpecker1530 woodhacker1548 woodpeck1552 woodspite1555 woodspeckc1560 modwall1572 eat-bill1598 speck1601 tree-jobber1601 hecco1604 eat-bee1608 knag1639 French pie1783 pie1783 nicker-pecker1787 rind-tabberer1848 peckerwood1859 nickle1885 nicker1886 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker) rain-fowl1440 woodwall1490 speight1513 hickwall?1533 rainbird1544 woodspite1555 green-peak1598 yaffingale1609 pick-a-tree1615 witwall1668 storm cock1769 nicker-pecker1787 yaffle1792 awl-bird1802 popinjay1802 yaffler1802 dirt-bird1847 yuckle1847 stock eagle1884 nicker1886 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliv. 173 But men saye in a comyn langage that ‘neuer noo wodewoll dyde brede a sperhawke’. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 193 Byrdes..lyke vnto those which we caule woodwaules, or woodpeckes. 1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 15 §2 For the Head of everie Woodwall Pye Jaye Raven or Kyte, one peny. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. 185 [The Green Woodpecker] is called in different parts of England by the various names of Woodspite,..Woodwall, and Poppinjay. 1916 J. R. Harris in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 212 In Devonshire a common name for the bird is Woodall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1250 |
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