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单词 woodwall
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woodwalln.

/ˈwʊdwɒl/
Forms: Middle English wude-, Middle English wodewale, Middle English wodewoll, wodwale, 1500s wode-, woodw(h)ale, woodwaule, woodweele, 1600s woodwal, woodhall, 1500s– woodwall. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.
Etymology: Middle English wodewale , < or cognate with Middle Low German wedewale (early Flemish widewael ‘oriolus’) < wede wood n.1 + *wale of obscure origin. (Compare witwall n. 2, hickwall n.)
Now dialect.
1. A singing bird: in early quots. of uncertain identity, but probably (as later) the Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula, which has a loud flute-like whistle: = witwall n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Oriolidae > genus Oriolus (oriole) > oriolus oriolus
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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.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker)
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woodpeck1552
woodspite1555
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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)
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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).
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