8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
noun a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously
noun common Old World thrush noted for its song
originFrom Middle English throstle, throstel, from Old English þrostle, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā, possibly altered from or a diminutive of *þurstaz, related to *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0