Meanings
adjectiveunthreshed (not comparable)
- not comparableNot threshed.
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.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 271
Origin
Translations
Greek αλώνιτος
- αλώνιτος (alónitos)not threshed
Ukrainian необмоло́чений
- необмоло́чений (neobmolóčenyj)not threshed
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