local. Also whindle. [? f. WIND sb.1] The redwing (Turdus iliacus), also called wind-thrush, -throstle.

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1674.  N. Cox, Gentl. Recr., III. (1677), 63. The Wind-throstle (or Whindle).

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a. 1698.  C. Morton, Enquiry, in Harl. Misc. (1744), II. 558/2. The … Wind-Thrush (or the Redwing, Wheenerd, Whindle; for so many Names it has in divers Countries).

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1772.  Rutty, Nat. Hist. Dublin, I. 342.

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1885.  Swainson, Prov. Names Birds, 5. Redwing…, Winnard (Cornwall). Windle (Devon).

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