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thurses

thurses is the plural of thurse.

Meaning of thurse

Noun

thurse (plural thurses)

  1. (dialectal) A giant; a gigantic spectre; an apparition.
    • And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-maid Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's...2010, Stephan Grundy, Beowulf (Fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33

Questions about thurses

What is thurses the plural of?
Thurses is the plural of thurse.

Words near thurses in the dictionary

  1. Thursday of Mysteries
  2. Thursdayish
  3. Thursdayness
  4. Thursdays
  5. thurse
  6. thurses
  7. Thursford
  8. Thursnight
  9. Thursnights
  10. Thurso
  11. thurst

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