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unthreshed

unthreshed adjective: not threshed.

Adjective

unthreshed (not comparable)

  1. Not threshed.
    • Sometimes the creature is believed to be killed by the last stroke of the sickle or scythe. But oftener it is thought to live so long as there is corn still unthreshed, and to be caught in the last sheaf threshed.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 271

Origin of unthreshed

From un- + threshed.

Questions about unthreshed

What does unthreshed mean?
Unthreshed means not threshed.
What part of speech is unthreshed?
Unthreshed is an adjective.

Words near unthreshed in the dictionary

  1. unthreatenable
  2. unthreatened
  3. unthreatening
  4. unthreateningly
  5. unthreateningness
  6. unthreshed
  7. unthresholded
  8. unthridden
  9. unthrift
  10. unthriftier
  11. unthriftiest

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