thrashel
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
thrashel (plural thrashels)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) Alternative form of threshel
- 1828, William Vincent Moorhouse, The Thrasher:
- Divested of their coats, with flail in hand,
At proper distance, front to front they stand;
And first, the thrashel's gentle swing to prove,
Whether with just exactness it will move
References edit
- “thrashel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Scots thraschell, thresschell, threschald, from Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þreskūþlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, *þreskwaną (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with English threshold, Swedish tröskel, Norwegian terskel.
Noun edit
thrashel (plural thrashels)
Further reading edit
- “thrashel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.