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woodwall Now dial.|ˈwʊdwɒl|
Forms: 3 wude-, 3–5 wodewale, 5 -woll, wodwale, 6 wode-, woodw(h)ale, -waule, -weele, 7 -wal, woodhall, 6– woodwall. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.
[ME. wodewale, ad. or cogn. w. MLG. wedewale (early Flem. widewael ‘oriolus’) f. wede wood n.1 + *wale of obscure origin. (Cf. witwall, and, for sense 2, hickwall.)]
†1. A singing bird: in early quots. of uncertain identity, but prob. (as later) the Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula, which has a loud flute-like whistle: = witwall 1. Obs.
a1250Owl & Night. 1659 (Cott. MS.) Þrusche & þrostle & wudewale [Jesus MS. wodewale] An fuheles boþe grete & smale. a1310in Wright Lyric P. v. 26 The wilde laveroc ant wolc ant the wodewale. c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 166 Escoter la note de l'oriol [gloss a wodewale]. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 658 In many places were nyghtyngales, Alpes, fynches, and wodewales, That in her swete song deliten. Ibid. 914 With popyniay, with nyghtyngale, With Chalaundre, and with wodewale. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 23 On fresh braunches syngith the wodwale. a1600Robin Hood ii. in Child Ballads III. 91 The woodweele sang, and wold not cease, Amongst the leaues a lyne. a1650Eger & Grine 922 in Furniv. & Hales Percy Folio I. 383 The throstlecocke, the Nightingale, The laueracke & the wild woodhall. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 24 That Bird which Holerius calls Galbula, that is Woodwall. a1667Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl. (1671), Witwall vel Woodwall,..galbula.
2. A woodpecker; esp. the Green Woodpecker, Gecinus viridis: = witwall 2.
In quot. 1489 tr. OF. bruhier buzzard.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xliv. 173 But men saye in a comyn langage that ‘neuer noo wodewoll dyde brede a sperhawke’. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 224 Byrdes..sumewhat lyke vnto those which we caule woodwaules, or woodpeckes. 1566Act 8 Eliz. c. 15 §2 For the Head of everie Woodwall Pye Jaye Raven or Kyte, one peny. 1815Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. 185 [The Green Woodpecker] is called in different parts of England by the various names of Woodspite,..Woodwall, and Poppinjay. 1916J. R. Harris in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 212 In Devonshire a common name for the bird is Woodall. |