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English
Noun
thrashingfloor (plural thrashingfloors)
- Obsolete spelling of thrashing floor.
1852, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, page 183:Heaven pity you with such a thrashingfloor for world, and its draggled dirty farthing-candle for sun!
1865, Jan de Liefde, Six Months Among the Charities of Europe, page 191:The produce of his garden and of the small piece of ground near his hut, which he cultivated with his own hands in his leisure hours, had enabled him to save the nice amount of living stock that peopled his thrashingfloor.
1883, Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, Teutonic Mythology, page 1053:The Servian witches dance ' na pometno guvno,' on the swept thrashingfloor, probably on a high mountain...
- 1899, Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 ed.), Chronicles 1:21:
- And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1912, Brigham Henry Roberts, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, page 324:This is the thrashingfloor, where the wheat is gathered to be thrashed.