What does whopstraw mean?

whopstraw

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.

"Charles had not been employed at Darracott Place above six months, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour."
"Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw"

whopstraws (plural)

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