Whinchat - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Whinchat : (noun)

1: brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows [syn: Saxicola rubetra]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Whinchat : \Whin"chat`\, n. [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zo["o]l.) A small warbler ({Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; --
called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Chat \Chat\, n. 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat ({I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat ({I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.

Bush chat. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bush.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)