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Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Alt. of Threnetical
Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.
A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
A song of lamentation; a threnode.
To call; to term.
The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
Same as Thrash.
Threshold.
of Thresh
One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.