Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Woven of threads; textile. Also
thridden .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Made of thread
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- adjective obsolete Made of
thread .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then I went on shore myself, and gave every of them a threaden point, and brought one of them aboard of me, where he did eat and drink, and then carried him on shore again.
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And after many interrogations and questions, they, refusing to sacrifice to the idols, were stretched and bounden unto a tree, and were commanded to be beaten with staves, and after, awls such as shoes be sewed with, were threaden and put under the ongles or nails of their fingers, and lainers or latchets of their skin were cut out of their back.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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Then I went on shore myself, and gave every of them a threaden point, and brought one of them aboard of me, where he did eat and drink, and then carried him on shore again.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584
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‘furzen’ in Holland; ‘threaden’ in Shakespeare; and ‘bricken’, ‘papern’ appear in our provincial glossaries as still in use.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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1054: To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden Sayles,
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