Shortened form of BRAMBLING.

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1674.  Ray, Eng. Birds, 83. The Bramble or Brambling.

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  Hence (or from BRAMBLE1) bramble-finch = BRAMBLING; also bramble-net, ‘a net for catching birds, a hallier.’ Phillips, 1706.

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1865.  Derby Mercury, 25 Jan., 2/6. Mr. Scrimshaw, also sent three grey parrots, a macaw, several Indigo blue birds, siskins, and and bramblefinches.

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1881.  Standard, 2 March, 5. The Act … omits the bramblefinch.

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