Lexicographical Neighbors of Threshel
Literary usage of Threshel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville by Samuel Rowe (1896)
"In the Lancashire dialect they have the same word, threshel, (identical with
ours) instead of flail. fls. xxxii.. 24. Our winnowing sieve answers to the ..."
2. Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and by Robert Hunt (1881)
"... and he vigorously beat the fog with the " threshel " —so the flail is called.
The boat passed through the fog and went to sea. A severe storm came on. ..."
3. Trial of Samuel Chase: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the by Samuel Chase, Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd, United States Congress Senate (1805)
"... that the conduct of the client will not bear the eye of scrutiny, they wish
r preclude investigation by arresting us at the threshel of enquiry. ..."
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