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English
Etymology
From thrash + -el.
Noun
thrashel (plural thrashels)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) Alternative form of threshel
1828, William Vincent Moorhouse, The Thrasher:Divested of their coats, with flail in hand,
At proper distance, front to front they stand;
And first, the thrashel's gentle swing to prove,
Whether with just exactness it will move
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Scots
Etymology
From Middle Scots thraschell, thresschell, threschald, from Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þreskūþlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, *þreskwaną (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with English threshold, Swedish tröskel, Norwegian terskel.
Noun
thrashel (plural thrashels)
- the stonen or wooden sill of a doorway
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