thrashel

English

Etymology

From thrash + -el.

Noun

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

References

Scots

Alternative forms

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

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