thrashel

== English == === Etymology === From thrash +‎ -el. === Noun === thrashel (plural thrashels) (obsolete, UK, dialect) Alternative form of threshel. === References === “thrashel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Scots == === Alternative forms === threschald, thraswald, thrashold, thrashol, thrashal, threshal, threshwart, threshwort === 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 ==== Further reading ==== “thrashel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.