† thrusche, v. Sc. Obs.
[Etymology and meaning obscure; perhaps there are here two words.
In sense 2, possibly:—OE. *þyrscan in ᵹe-, of-þyrscan, ‘to press, press down, repress’; but this does not suit sense 1, for which some suggest identity with frush v., with th for f; but this also seems to fail to give the sense ‘cut or cleave’.]
1. trans. ? To cut asunder, cleave.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace iii. 190 The thrusande blaid his hals in sonder schayr. Ibid. xi. 252 His gud suerd..His body in twa it thurschyt euirlikdeill. 1483 Cath. Angl. 387/2 To Thrusche. [No Latin.] |
2. To thrust, press.
| 1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 206/2 [He] pullit vp the brod of the windo Quhairvnto the said m{supr} alexander had thrusschit his majesteis heid and schulderis. [Panton's Dissert. Gowry Consp. 1812, quotes the passage with thrust.] |