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Definition of Trashes
1. trash [v] - See also: trash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trashes
Literary usage of Trashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Combinations and Trusts by William Harrison Spring Stevens (1913)
"(c) Burley trashes: The P. Lorillard Co. would dominate the market for burley
trashes as the maker of the "Union Leader," " Sensation," and "Just Suits" ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"trashes, sb. worn-out shoes ; also slippers. COLL. USE. He'd nowt on his feet
but a pair o' trashes that let o' l88'- his toes through. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"trashes, sb. worn-out shoes; also slippers. COLL. USE. He'd nowt on his feet but
a pair o' trashes that let o' l88l- his toes through. ..."
4. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"trashes. In Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, B. 40, is the line— ' With rent ...
trashes is the plural of trash', still in use; and one sense of trash is rags. ..."
5. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"COCKERS and trashes,s. Old stockings without feet, and worn-out shoes. North.
[trashes, from trash, rubbish.] COCKET, adj. ..."
6. Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, from 1504 to 1635 by J. E. Foster (1905)
"... and trashes and to a Laborer for two daies worke ... ... ... ... ... ...
iiij' vjd Item to ... hares x" vj* Item for trashes ..."
7. Octavo Publications (1905)
"... and trashes and to a Laborer for two daies worke iiij" vjd Item to Goodman
Preist and Benison for ..."
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