unthreshed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ threshed

Adjective

unthreshed (not comparable)

  1. Not threshed.
    • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 271:
      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.

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