thrashel

English

Alternative forms

• threshel

Etymology

From thrash +‎ -el.

Noun

thrashel (plural thrashels)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thrashel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Scots

Alternative forms

• threschald, thraswald, thrashold, thrashol, thrashal, threshal, threshwart, threshwort

Etymology

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

thrashel (plural thrashels)

1. the stonen or wooden sill of a doorway

Further reading

• “thrashel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.