The male throstle or song-thrush; dial. the male missel-thrush.
c. 1300. Thrush & Night., 121. in Hazl., E. P. P., I. 55. Threstelkok, thou hauest wrong.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 58 (Harl.). The þrostilcok [v.rr. thrustel-, -il-] maad eek his lay.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poemes (Percy Soc.), 203. The thruschylcok nor the feldfare.
1530. Palsgr., 281/1. Thrustell cocke, mauluis.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xli. 5. The thissell-cok [sic] cryis On louers vha lyis.
1604. Drayton, Owle, 220. The warbling Throstle Cocke.
1825. Jamieson, Thrissel-cock, the Missel-thrush or Shrite, Turdus viscivorus, Gesner; the Throstle-cock of the North of England.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 169. A throstle-cock beside him broke Into the sweetest of his song.
