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drexil

drexil noun: the threshold of a door.

Noun

drexil (plural drexils)

  1. (England, countable, obsolete) The threshold of a door.
    • But, after a bit, father up and out after the cattle, and there he found you, as I said, in a faint, and wet as seaweed, on the drexil .1887, Sabine Baring Gould, The Gaverocks, page 48

Forms of drexil

pluraldrexils
alternative formdreshel
alternative formdreshol
alternative formdreshul
alternative formdrescel
alternative formdreskal
alternative formdressel
alternative formdresshel

Questions about drexil

What does drexil mean?
Drexil means the threshold of a door.
What part of speech is drexil?
Drexil is a noun.
What is the plural of drexil?
The plural of drexil is drexils.

Words near drexil in the dictionary

  1. Drewsville
  2. Drewton
  3. Drexel
  4. Drexel Hill
  5. Drexels
  6. drexil
  7. Drexler
  8. Drexlers
  9. drey
  10. drey poking
  11. Dreydegger

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