单词 | unthrashed |
释义 | unthrashedunthreshedadj. 1. Of corn, etc.: Not thrashed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [adjective] > threshed > not unthrashen1482 unthrashed1561 unbarrowed1569 unberried1570 in the straw1701 α. β. 1692 J. P. New Guide Constables 142 Carts..carrying..Corn unthrashed.1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 323 Others throw hay or unthrashed corn in handfuls upon the snow to feed them.1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 286 The unthrashed corn..is delivered into the machine.figurative.1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. ii. 51 It is to be remembered, that knowledge in this form may be kept..in such unthreshed disorder that it is of no use.1561 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 193 xx threives of wheat unthresshed. 1574 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 23 Such wheat..vnthreshed till March, in the sheafe let it lye. 1660 in Sadler St. Papers (1809) III. 360 Barley, threshed and unthreshed. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Harvest Wheat keeps better when stacked in the ear unthreshed. 1798 Hull Advertiser 24 Mar. 2/3 Insurance upon..outhouses, and upon unthreshed stock therein. 1885 Athenæum 5 Sept. 298/1 A wooden stage on which unthreshed corn is placed. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlviii. 144 The unthreshed sheaves remaining untouched. 2. Unbeaten, unflogged. ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 5 Oct. 3/1 A couple of youths..tore the lower part of it, but they ran off unthrashed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1561 |
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