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whinchat
[hwin-chat, win-]
noun
a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.
whinchat
/ ˈɪˌʃæ /
noun
an Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, having a mottled brown-and-white plumage with pale cream underparts: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of whinchat1
Example Sentences
Many bird species have also been observed on the site, including the curlew, wigeon, skylark, warbler, ringed plover, and whinchat.
The phrase means a cold, or sickly, person and derives from the whinchat bird, known locally as the winnard, which migrates in winter to warmer places.
There were stonechats and whinchats then as now.
So I believe would the whinchat, but I have no practical knowledge of either as pets.
Trade, cotton, were the mud Upon the whinchat’s claws containing seeds Of liberties to be, and carried forth In mid seas of the future to sunny isles, More blest than ours.
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