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stormcock

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English

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Etymology

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From storm +‎ cock.

Noun

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stormcock (plural stormcocks)

  1. (archaic) The mistle thrush.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) The fieldfare.
  3. The green woodpecker.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stormcock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)