(n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later on in the year the Indian summer, plus some wild winds, resulted in unusual feathered visitors such as the buff-breasted sandpiper, which blew in from North America, and the desert wheatear, thought to have drifted in from north Africa.
(2) A desert wheatear – a small bird – followed the southerly air stream up from north Africa to spend a few days at Man Sands in Devon.
(3) At the abscess incision, a wheatear inhaled previously by the child is found out.
Wittol
Definition:
(n.) The wheatear.
(n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.