any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
"The finches in our garden scratch at the ground to find and crush those hard winter seeds."
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
"The morning feeder was soon crowded with dozens of finches as they eagerly pecked at the spilled sunflower seeds."
To hunt for finches, to go finching.
"The early morning mist made it difficult to spot the small birds as we trekked up the hill in search of finches."
A surname, from nicknames, from finch as a byname or for a catcher and seller of finches.
"The local historian noted that the Finch family name likely originated when an ancestor was known simply as 'Finch' because he caught and sold birds in the market square."