English-Thai Dictionary
throstle
N นก พวก thrush ที่ ร้อง เสียง ไพเราะ เครื่อง ทอ
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
THROSTLE
n.thros'l. A bird of the genus Turdus, the song-thrush.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
THROSTLE
Thros "tle, n. Etym: [OE. throsel, AS. ,; akin to MHG. trostel, G.drossel, Icel., Sw. trast, Lith. strazdas, L. turdus. *238. Cf. Thrush the bird. ]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The song thrush. See under Song.
2. 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; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng. ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
throstle
thros tle |ˈTHrôsəl ˈθrɔsəl | ▶noun 1 Brit. old-fashioned term for song thrush. 2 (also throstle frame ) historical a machine for continuously spinning wool or cotton. ORIGIN Old English, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin turdus ‘thrush. ’ Sense 2 dates from the early 19th cent. and was apparently named from the humming sound of the machine.
Oxford Dictionary
throstle
throstle |ˈθrɒs (ə )l | ▶noun 1 Brit. old-fashioned term for song thrush. 2 (also throstle frame ) historical a machine for continuously spinning wool or cotton. ORIGIN Old English, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin turdus ‘thrush ’. Sense 2 dates from the early 19th cent. and was apparently named from the humming sound of the machine.
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