ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Sw. otröskad.]
1. Of corn, etc.: Not thrashed.
α. 1561. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 193. xx threives of wheat unthresshed.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 56. Such wheat … vnthreshed till March in the sheafe let it lie.
1660. in Sadler St. Papers (1809), III. 360. Barley, threshed and unthreshed.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Harvest, Wheat keeps better when stacked in the ear unthreshed.
1798. Hull Advertiser, 24 March, 2/3. Insurance upon … outhouses, and upon unthreshed stock therein.
1823. in New England Farmer, I. 15 Feb., 227. The grain thus placed, is carried upon the flails, which are so equably and exactly applied that it is almost impossible for any part of the grain to escape unthreshed.
1885. Athenæum, 5 Sept., 298/1. A wooden stage on which unthreshed corn is placed.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xlviii. The unthreshed sheaves remaining untouched.
β. 1702. Guide for Constables, 136. Carts carrying … corn unthrashed.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 323. Others throw hay or unthrashed corn in handfuls upon the snow to feed them.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 286. The unthrashed corn … is delivered into the machine.
fig. 1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. § 27. It is to be remembered, that knowledge in this form may be kept … in such unthreshed disorder that it is of no use.
2. Unbeaten, unflogged.
1892. Daily News, 5 Oct., 3/1. A couple of youths … tore the lower part of it, but they ran off unthrashed.
