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n. Any of various New World birds of the family Icteridae, such as the grackle or red-winged blackbird, the male of which has black or predominantly black plumage.

n. An Old World songbird (Turdus merula), the male of which is black with a yellow bill. Also called merle1.

n. Australian A South Sea Islander kidnapped and sold into slavery in Australia; a Kanaka.

v. Australian To kidnap (a South Sea Islander) and sell into slavery.

n. A (common) true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.

n. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).

n. In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phœniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See redwing.

n. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian.

n. A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also Kanaka.

verb-intransitive. to engage in the slave trade.

n. The English name of a species of thrush, Merula merula, Turdus merula, or Merula vulgaris, common throughout Europe.

n. In America, a bird of the family Icteridæ (which see).

n. In the West Indies, the ani, Crotophaga ani, of the family Cuculidæ, or cuckoos; the savanna-blackbird. See cut under ani.

n. A cant term on the coast of Africa for a slave.

n. A native of the islands of Torres Strait.

n. common black European thrush

n. any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

"The blackbird was the first to take the alarm from the jay, and away he flew, crying, "Kink, kink, kink," as he started from his nest in a great ivy tod on an old pollard-tree."

blackbirded    blackbirding    blackbirds   

thrush   

brewer's blackbird    ouzel   

redwing    Kanaka   

blackbirding    blackbirder    red-winged blackbird   

sparrow    thrush    bluebird    jay    robin    lark    cuckoo    peacock    linnet    nightingale