thrashel

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English

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Etymology

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From thrash +‎ -el.

Noun

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thrashel (plural thrashels)

  1. (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

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Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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thrashel (plural thrashels)

  1. the stonen or wooden sill of a doorway

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