redwingn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdwɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌwɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: red adj., wing n.

Etymology: < red adj. + wing n., originally (in sense 1) after classical Latin phoenīcopterus phoenicopter n. Compare earlier red-winged adj.

†1. A flamingo. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility iii. 157 He undertook among other things to send..a pair of Phœnicopteri, or Red-wings, birds so-called.

1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 539 Du Hamel gives a very exact Account of this Bird in the following Words, with which I'll close this tedious and prolix Description, collected from all the Authors that have made any mention of the Phœnicopter or Red-Wing.

a. A small migratory thrush, Turdus iliacus, with red patches on the flanks and the undersides of the wings, breeding mainly in northern Europe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing)

wing-thrush1544

swinepipe1649

redwing1668

windle1677

winnarda1698

wind-thrusha1705

redwing fieldfare1767

redwing thrush1768

wind-throstle1826

pop1848

whin-thrush1848

Swedish nightingale1879

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 149 Redwing, swinepipe.

1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 17 Turdus Iliacus, sive Illas, aut Tylas, the Red-wing, or Wind-Thrush.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 494 The orange-grey Turdus, with a white breast, the Redwing; this is smaller than the common thrush.

1771 G. White Let. 1 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 144 Redwings are some of the first birds that suffer with us in severe weather.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (at cited word) The Redwing is a migrative species, coming to us in great flocks about the latter end of September.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 778 The notes of the Redwing are indeed pleasing in places where no better songster exists.

1954 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 192 To these islands the Continental redwing is a winter visitor.

1990 Nat. World Spring–Summer 28/1 Windfalls left to rot on the ground are devoured by flocks of blackbird and overwintering thrushes, particularly redwings and fieldfares.

b. North American. The red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird)

red-winged starling1729

red-winged blackbird?1769

maize thief1772

redwing1778

red-winged oriole1785

red-winged troopial1825

redwing blackbird1830

maize-bird1836

maizer1837

swamp blackbird1891

officer1902

1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 474 The second sort [of blackbird] is the red wing, which is rather smaller than the first species.

1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 348 As soon as spring makes its appearance, almost all the Redwings leave the Southern States.

1859 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 4 Oct. in Writings (1906) XII. viii. 372 I see..no red-wings for a long time.

1916 A. C. Laut Cariboo Trail ii. 28 Redwings..pick crumbs from every camp meal.

1947 Chicago Tribune 2 Sept. 7/3 The grackles and redwings also are having a high old time these days roaming around the country.

c. South African. The red-winged francolin of southern Africa, Francolinus levaillantii, which has a tawny patch extending from the eye down the side of the neck. Also with unchanged plural.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Francolinus

francolin1594

red-necked partridge1783

partridge1785

pheasant1785

red-necked francolin1819

Natal francolin1860

red-necked pheasant1867

redwing partridge1867

redwing1878

red-necked spurfowl1952

1878 T. J. Lucas Camp Life & Sport S. Afr. vi. 85 We had a sprinkling of ‘red wing’, but the game grey partridge was more predominant.

1908 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life 125 In the Cape Colony the two best known species are the Cape Redwing (Francolinus levaillantii) and the Greywing or Cape Partridge (F. africanus).

1962 C. W. Mackworth-Praed & C. H. B. Grant Birds S. Third Afr. I. 208 Red-wing... Top of head brown with darker centres to feathers.

3. Frequently with capital initial. A racing boat of the Redwing class (see Compounds 1).

ΚΠ

1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 7/1 Every kind of craft is likely to find representation, from the big racers to the little redwings with their rosy sails.

1965 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 117 A young man..was rigging a Redwing.

1999 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 23 June 4 Diana and Colin..have used hundreds of metres of canvas to create new sails for four-masted sailing ships but are equally at home repairing small Redwings.

Compounds

C1. Frequently with capital initial. Designating or relating to a class of light fast racing boats, first established at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.Various specifications have been formulated for boats of this class, but all of them retain the red sails which gave rise to the original name.

ΚΠ

1897 Times 25 Jan. 7/1 Fourteen boats for members of the Bembridge Sailing Club..are to be known as the Redwing fleet, as they are all to carry red sails.

1914 Times 9 July 14/4 A race for the Redwing class ended in a win for Captain Herbert's Circus Girl.

1989 Independent (Nexis) 1 Aug. (Sport section) 27 In the Bembridge Redwing class, two former Olympians led the battle with Vernon Stratton coming home ahead of Jonathan Janson.

2005 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 9 June 4 He often won races and regatta events, being a member of the highly competitive Redwing fleet which sailed from Babbacombe.

C2.

redwing blackbird n. = red-winged blackbird n. at red-winged adj. Compounds; cf. sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird)

red-winged starling1729

red-winged blackbird?1769

maize thief1772

redwing1778

red-winged oriole1785

red-winged troopial1825

redwing blackbird1830

maize-bird1836

maizer1837

swamp blackbird1891

officer1902

1830 J. Tanner Narr. Captivity & Adven. 305 Small pheasant hawk..Turkey buzzard..Red wing black bird.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 96 The redwing blackbird.., though preferring marshes, often builds here in small trees on the borders of boggy streams.

1975 M. H. Wolf I'll Take Back Road ii. 22 The redwing blackbirds creak as they house hunt through the pastures.

2004 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. d3/2 A redwing blackbird..cranes its neck and curries its chest feathers with gusto.

† redwing fieldfare n. Obsolete rare = sense 2a.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing)

wing-thrush1544

swinepipe1649

redwing1668

windle1677

winnarda1698

wind-thrusha1705

redwing fieldfare1767

redwing thrush1768

wind-throstle1826

pop1848

whin-thrush1848

Swedish nightingale1879

1767 G. White Let. 4 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 28 The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together.

redwing partridge n. South African = sense 2c.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Francolinus

francolin1594

red-necked partridge1783

partridge1785

pheasant1785

red-necked francolin1819

Natal francolin1860

red-necked pheasant1867

redwing partridge1867

redwing1878

red-necked spurfowl1952

1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 270 Francolinus Levaillantii... Red-wing-Partridge of Colonists.

1958 L. G. Green S. Afr. Beachcomber 23 Such expert shots did they become that they picked off redwing partridges on the wing with their rifles.

2004 F. S. Afolayan Culture & Customs S. Afr. ix. 220 Girls and young women are to avoid eating blood, redwing partridges, warthogs.., as well as snouts and testicles.

redwing thrush n. now rare = sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing)

wing-thrush1544

swinepipe1649

redwing1668

windle1677

winnarda1698

wind-thrusha1705

redwing fieldfare1767

redwing thrush1768

wind-throstle1826

pop1848

whin-thrush1848

Swedish nightingale1879

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 244 The martins and the red wing thrushes having been seen flying in view on the seventh of November.

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 185 The Redwing Thrush..is a common winter visitant in Britain.

1996 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 3/2 This is a first-winter thrush that got caught up with a flock of migrating red-wing thrush, which has since moved on.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	redwing
释义	redwingn. Brit. /ˈrɛdwɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌwɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: red adj., wing n. Etymology: < red adj. + wing n., originally (in sense 1) after classical Latin phoenīcopterus phoenicopter n. Compare earlier red-winged adj. †1. A flamingo. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility iii. 157 He undertook among other things to send..a pair of Phœnicopteri, or Red-wings, birds so-called. 1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 539 Du Hamel gives a very exact Account of this Bird in the following Words, with which I'll close this tedious and prolix Description, collected from all the Authors that have made any mention of the Phœnicopter or Red-Wing. 2. a. A small migratory thrush, Turdus iliacus, with red patches on the flanks and the undersides of the wings, breeding mainly in northern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing) wing-thrush1544 swinepipe1649 redwing1668 windle1677 winnarda1698 wind-thrusha1705 redwing fieldfare1767 redwing thrush1768 wind-throstle1826 pop1848 whin-thrush1848 Swedish nightingale1879 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 149 Redwing, swinepipe. 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 17 Turdus Iliacus, sive Illas, aut Tylas, the Red-wing, or Wind-Thrush. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 494 The orange-grey Turdus, with a white breast, the Redwing; this is smaller than the common thrush. 1771 G. White Let. 1 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 144 Redwings are some of the first birds that suffer with us in severe weather. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (at cited word) The Redwing is a migrative species, coming to us in great flocks about the latter end of September. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 778 The notes of the Redwing are indeed pleasing in places where no better songster exists. 1954 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 192 To these islands the Continental redwing is a winter visitor. 1990 Nat. World Spring–Summer 28/1 Windfalls left to rot on the ground are devoured by flocks of blackbird and overwintering thrushes, particularly redwings and fieldfares. b. North American. The red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 474 The second sort [of blackbird] is the red wing, which is rather smaller than the first species. 1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 348 As soon as spring makes its appearance, almost all the Redwings leave the Southern States. 1859 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 4 Oct. in Writings (1906) XII. viii. 372 I see..no red-wings for a long time. 1916 A. C. Laut Cariboo Trail ii. 28 Redwings..pick crumbs from every camp meal. 1947 Chicago Tribune 2 Sept. 7/3 The grackles and redwings also are having a high old time these days roaming around the country. c. South African. The red-winged francolin of southern Africa, Francolinus levaillantii, which has a tawny patch extending from the eye down the side of the neck. Also with unchanged plural. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Francolinus francolin1594 red-necked partridge1783 partridge1785 pheasant1785 red-necked francolin1819 Natal francolin1860 red-necked pheasant1867 redwing partridge1867 redwing1878 red-necked spurfowl1952 1878 T. J. Lucas Camp Life & Sport S. Afr. vi. 85 We had a sprinkling of ‘red wing’, but the game grey partridge was more predominant. 1908 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life 125 In the Cape Colony the two best known species are the Cape Redwing (Francolinus levaillantii) and the Greywing or Cape Partridge (F. africanus). 1962 C. W. Mackworth-Praed & C. H. B. Grant Birds S. Third Afr. I. 208 Red-wing... Top of head brown with darker centres to feathers. 3. Frequently with capital initial. A racing boat of the Redwing class (see Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 7/1 Every kind of craft is likely to find representation, from the big racers to the little redwings with their rosy sails. 1965 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 117 A young man..was rigging a Redwing. 1999 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 23 June 4 Diana and Colin..have used hundreds of metres of canvas to create new sails for four-masted sailing ships but are equally at home repairing small Redwings. Compounds C1. Frequently with capital initial. Designating or relating to a class of light fast racing boats, first established at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.Various specifications have been formulated for boats of this class, but all of them retain the red sails which gave rise to the original name. ΚΠ 1897 Times 25 Jan. 7/1 Fourteen boats for members of the Bembridge Sailing Club..are to be known as the Redwing fleet, as they are all to carry red sails. 1914 Times 9 July 14/4 A race for the Redwing class ended in a win for Captain Herbert's Circus Girl. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 1 Aug. (Sport section) 27 In the Bembridge Redwing class, two former Olympians led the battle with Vernon Stratton coming home ahead of Jonathan Janson. 2005 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 9 June 4 He often won races and regatta events, being a member of the highly competitive Redwing fleet which sailed from Babbacombe. C2. redwing blackbird n. = red-winged blackbird n. at red-winged adj. Compounds; cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Agelaius > agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) red-winged starling1729 red-winged blackbird?1769 maize thief1772 redwing1778 red-winged oriole1785 red-winged troopial1825 redwing blackbird1830 maize-bird1836 maizer1837 swamp blackbird1891 officer1902 1830 J. Tanner Narr. Captivity & Adven. 305 Small pheasant hawk..Turkey buzzard..Red wing black bird. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 96 The redwing blackbird.., though preferring marshes, often builds here in small trees on the borders of boggy streams. 1975 M. H. Wolf I'll Take Back Road ii. 22 The redwing blackbirds creak as they house hunt through the pastures. 2004 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. d3/2 A redwing blackbird..cranes its neck and curries its chest feathers with gusto. † redwing fieldfare n. Obsolete rare = sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing) wing-thrush1544 swinepipe1649 redwing1668 windle1677 winnarda1698 wind-thrusha1705 redwing fieldfare1767 redwing thrush1768 wind-throstle1826 pop1848 whin-thrush1848 Swedish nightingale1879 1767 G. White Let. 4 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 28 The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together. redwing partridge n. South African = sense 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Francolinus francolin1594 red-necked partridge1783 partridge1785 pheasant1785 red-necked francolin1819 Natal francolin1860 red-necked pheasant1867 redwing partridge1867 redwing1878 red-necked spurfowl1952 1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 270 Francolinus Levaillantii... Red-wing-Partridge of Colonists. 1958 L. G. Green S. Afr. Beachcomber 23 Such expert shots did they become that they picked off redwing partridges on the wing with their rifles. 2004 F. S. Afolayan Culture & Customs S. Afr. ix. 220 Girls and young women are to avoid eating blood, redwing partridges, warthogs.., as well as snouts and testicles. redwing thrush n. now rare = sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing) wing-thrush1544 swinepipe1649 redwing1668 windle1677 winnarda1698 wind-thrusha1705 redwing fieldfare1767 redwing thrush1768 wind-throstle1826 pop1848 whin-thrush1848 Swedish nightingale1879 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 244 The martins and the red wing thrushes having been seen flying in view on the seventh of November. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 185 The Redwing Thrush..is a common winter visitant in Britain. 1996 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 3/2 This is a first-winter thrush that got caught up with a flock of migrating red-wing thrush, which has since moved on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657
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