whopstraws

Noun

whopstraw (plural whopstraws)

1. A rustic, a clod-hopper.
   • Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
2. A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
   • Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstrawa. 1864, John Clare, edited by J. W. Tibble, Selected Poems, published 1965