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

• “thrashel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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.