thrice cock (thriskok)

[A corruption of thrush - cock.] The mistle thrush. [Prov. Eng.] thrid1t (thrid), n. [A var. of thread through the form threed, the long ee being shortened as in breeches, threepence, been, etc.] Same as thread. And make his bridle a bottom of thrid , To roll up how many miles you have rid. B. Jonson, Masque of Queens. thrid1 (thrid), v. t.; pret. and pp. thridded, ppr. thridding. Same as thread. [Obsolete or archaic.] Uncle, good uncle, see! the thin starv'd rascal, The eating Roman, see where he thrids the thickets! Fletcher , Bonduc a, iv. 2. "Glory to God," she sang, and past afar, Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood. Tennyson, Fair Women. thrid2 (thrid), a. A Middle English or dialectal form of third1.