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What is the noun for blackbird?

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blackbird
  1. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
  2. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
  3. (derogatory) A native of the South Pacific islands.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The sight of a blackbird perched on a tree branch brought a sense of tranquility to the garden.”
blackbirder
  1. A person involved in blackbirding.
  2. A ship used for blackbirding.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The authorities, they get worried because a Kanaka's spree lands him, like as not, in a blackbirder.”
      “When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me.”
      “I was mate, then, on the Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.”
blackbirding
  1. (Britain, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
blackbirders
  1. plural of blackbirder
blackbirds
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