Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English preterit of
thrust .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To thrust.
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Examples
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From thens we wêt vndre the crowdes, whiche is nat withowt hys chaplaynes, & there we sawe the brayne panne of that holy martyr whiche was thraste quyte thorow, all the other was coueryd with syluer, the ouerparte of the brayne panne was bare to be kyssyd, and there with all is seth forthe a certayn leden table hauynge grauyd in hym a tytle of saynte Thomas of Acrese.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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