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ˈThresher2
A member of an Irish political organization instituted in 1806, which issued manifestos signed ‘Captain Thresher’.
1806Ld. Plunket Sp. 5 Dec. in Howell State Trials (1822) XXX. 7 For some time past the peace of the county [Sligo] has been infested by a set of persons assuming the name of ‘Threshers’. 1808Hist. in Ann. Reg. 1806. 263 Disturbances..occasioned by a banditti, who went about in the night time under the name of Threshers, committing every sort of crime and outrage. 1812Chron. ibid. 31/1 The spirit of party broke out between several of the lower orders, styling themselves Threshers on the one side, and Orangemen on the other. |