Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheaf; a handful.
- noun Specifically Twenty-four sheaves of grain set up in the field, forming two stooks, or shocks of twelve sheaves each.
- noun The number of two dozen; hence, an indefinite number; a considerable number.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
- noun obsolete, obsolete The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect, obsolete Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve)
sheaves ofwheat ; ashock , orstook . - noun UK, dialect, obsolete Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a
bunch ; athrong .
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Examples
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A daimen-icker [6-4] in a thrave [6-5] 'S a sma 'request:
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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A daimen icker in a thrave [odd ear, 24 sheaves] 'S a sma 'request; [Is]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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A daimen-icker, a corn-ear now and then; thrave, shock.
Notes: Book Third. Palgrave, Francis T Francis T. Palgrave 1875
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A daimen icker in a thrave [171] 'S a sma 'request:
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[171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves.
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"The hospital of St. Leonard's has compelled us unjustly to render them a thrave of corn."
The Last of the Barons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Hilyard, of the popular kind of eloquence, which -- short, plain, generous, and simple -- cuts its way at once through the feelings to the policy, Warwick briefly but forcibly recapitulated to the commons the promises he had made to the captains; and as soon as they heard of taxes removed, the coinage reformed, the corn thrave abolished, the
The Last of the Barons — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Robin of Redesdale, -- the pretext, a thrave of corn demanded by the
The Last of the Barons — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Redesdale, -- the pretext, a thrave of corn demanded by the Hospital of
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
reesetee commented on the word thrave
24 sheaves of wheat.
April 21, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word thrave
24 sheaves of grain - whether it be wheat, or corn, or other grain; the harvest from which, threshed, is another connotation, that of an indefinite or innumerable number.
March 13, 2011
qms commented on the word thrave
The harvesters' task is to shave
The field of its ripe golden wave,
And once it is shorn
To bind up the corn
By sheaf into stook and then thrave.
March 12, 2015