nodula

nodula, 1 nodulus [cf. NGML nauda 2+-ula, NGML nodula 2] , bird that lives near a stream, blackbird, chough, jackdaw, or ouzel. b (her.) representation of such a bird. 1410 pro exclusione [n]odularum ab ecclesia Ac. Durh. 403; hec ~a, A. kae WW; a dawe monedula, nodus, ~us CathA; servabit ecclesiam ab ingressae columbarum, nodolorum, corvorum Reg. Aberd. II 104; usque nidum nicticoracis, sive ~e aut cornicis Extr. Chr. Scot. 193.  b cornicem sive ~am in armis portare signat garrulatorem magnum Bad. Aur. 169.