Sc. Also 7 thrush. [corrupt. of rash, resh, OE. risc, RUSH sb.1] A rush. Also attrib., thresh-bush, a clump of rushes.
1697. Cleland, Poems, 30 (Jam.). Their bare preaching now Makes the thrush-bush keep the cow.
1795. A. Wilson, Spouter, in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 335. Green thrashes were strewed on the floor.
1822. R. Wilson, Poems, Twa Mice (E.D.D.). Wi’ their teeth green threshes chackit.
1850. J. Struthers, Life, vi. Poet. Wks. I. p. cxiv. The shelter of a few well-grown thresh-bushes.
1871. H. S. Riddell, Poet. Wks., II. 127 (E.D.D.). Threshes formed the theekin.
