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whopstraw en · NOUN

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1. A rustic, a clod-hopper.
   • 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. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
2. A thresher, one who separates the grain from the chaff by beating with a flail.
   • Parker Clare became a flail-thresher, a whopstraw a'''. 1864, John Clare, edited by J. W. Tibble, Selected Poems, published 1965:

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