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Throstle

//ˈθɹɒsəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A song thrush. archaic, dialectal

    "The Throstell, with shrill Sharps; as purposely he song / T’awake the lustlesse Sunne; or chyding, that so long"

  2. 2
    common Old World thrush noted for its song wordnet
  3. 3
    A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous.

    "THE RING THROSTLE. / A Throstle under the above title has been recently introduced from America, the principal novel feature of which, is a substitute for the flyer and heavy spindle of the common throstle, and for the cone or cape, and the barrel tube of the Danforth throstle."

  4. 4
    a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English throstle, throstel, from Old English þrostle, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā, possibly altered from or a diminutive of *þurstaz, related to *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.

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