drexil

English

Alternative forms

• dreshel, dreshol, dreshul, drescel, dreskal, dressel, dresshel

Noun

drexil (plural drexils)

1. (countable, obsolete, England) The threshold of a door.
   • 1887, Sabine Baring Gould, The Gaverocks‎^[1], page 48:

     But, after a bit, father up and out after the cattle, and there he found you, as I said, in a faint, and wet as seaweed, on the drexil .

References

• Joseph Wright (editor). The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E. 1898.