Meaning of whopstraw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rustic, a clod-hopper.
2. A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.

Examples

“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”

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