'Whinchat' definitions:
Definition of 'whinchat'
From: WordNet
noun
Brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows [syn: whinchat, Saxicola rubetra]
Definition of 'Whinchat'
From: GCIDE
- Whinchat \Whin"chat`\, n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zool.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'whinchat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\, n.
- 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. [1913 Webster]
- Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat. [1913 Webster]
- Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush. [1913 Webster]