Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sheaf; a handful.
- n. Specifically Twenty-four sheaves of grain set up in the field, forming two stooks, or shocks of twelve sheaves each.
- n. The number of two dozen; hence, an indefinite number; a considerable number.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
- n. obsolete, obsolete The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.
Examples
“A daimen-icker [6-4] in a thrave [6-5] 'S a sma 'request:”
“A daimen icker in a thrave [odd ear, 24 sheaves] 'S a sma 'request; [Is]”
“Carlisle, had from its foundation been endowed with a thrave of corn from every ploughland in Cumberland.”
“A daimen-icker, a corn-ear now and then; thrave, shock.”
“A daimen icker in a thrave [171] 'S a sma 'request:”
“[171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves.”
“Redesdale, -- the pretext, a thrave of corn demanded by the Hospital of”
“The hospital of St. Leonard's has compelled us unjustly to render them a thrave of corn.”
“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”
“Robin of Redesdale, -- the pretext, a thrave of corn demanded by the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrave’.
-
Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
-
twelfth
words and concepts reflective of their twelveness
twelfthtide, well-tempered, twelve noon, twelvemo, duodecimo, twelvescore, twelvepence, twelfth-second, twelfth-night, twelfth-tide, twelfthly, twelfth man and 49 more...
-
discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
-
The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
-
Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
-
Botany & Other Sciences
Weird/funny/unknown to me plant names, botany terms, & other science vocabulary.
cicely, thrave, osmunda, turnsole, bosky, auxin, xerarch, lycophyte, anthophilous, ramose, scalpellum, scape and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thrave.
hernesheir 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. Mar 12, 2011
reesetee 24 sheaves of wheat. Apr 20, 2009