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thresheln. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old High German driskil (Middle High German drischel , German regional Drischel ), Danish tærskel (c1700, now historical) < the Germanic base of thresh v. + the Germanic base of -le suffix 1.The semantic range in Old English is not quite certain, as the word is only attested as simplex in glossaries, either translating post-classical Latin bainus , bamus , of uncertain sense, perhaps forms of classical Latin vannus winnowing basket, winnowing fan (compare quot. OE1 at sense 1), or translating post-classical Latin tritorium (6th cent.), otherwise attested in senses such as ‘pestle, instrument for grinding or grating, (also) threshing place, threshing floor’ (compare quot. OE2 at sense 1). A rare compound Old English þyrscel-flōr (early Middle English þyrscel-flōr ) is also attested in sense ‘threshing floor’ (compare floor n.1). Forms with stem vowel a (such as thrashel at α. forms, drashel at β. forms, etc.) are after thrash v. With the β. forms compare similar regional forms in dr- at thresh v. Forms 1α(b) and thrash v. In forms threshold, thrashat, throstle at α. forms apparently influenced by forms of threshold n. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail OE (1966) 23 Bainus, þerscel. OE (2011) 46 Tritorium, þerscel. a1567 L. Nowell (1952) 192/2 Þerscel, a flayle. Lanc. a thresshel. 1669 J. Flavell i. xix. 159 As they have threshals of different sizes, so they bestow on some grain more, on other fewer strokes. 1685 R. Dunning 5 By his Threshall, Mattock, and the like, he now gains his Meat and Drink. 1730 S. Duck 16 No intermission in our Works we know; The noisy Threshall must for ever go. 1811 T. Davis (new ed.) 266 A pair of threshles or drashols, or flyals, a flail. 1881 G. F. Jackson Suppl. Thrashal, Thrashat,..a flail. 1954 4 Nov. 1564/1 The threshal—so far as England is concerned—sleeps now for ever in the new folk museums among the rest of the bygones. 1969 H. Orton & M. V. Barry II. i. 198 What did they thresh with before machines came in?.. [Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire] Threshels. 1974 W. Leeds 100 Threshel, Dreshel, a flail. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > blunt weapons other than sticks > [noun] > flail or black-jack 1688 R. Holme (1905) iii. xvi. 88/1 A round Iron or Lead Ball sett on all sides with spike nayles, or sharp pointed Irons, hung in a chaine, to the end of a staffe or cudgell... Some terme it a slinged Galthrope, others Waring thressal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). <  n.OE |
