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Trash   /træʃ/   Listen
noun
Trash  n.  
1.
That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. "Who steals my purse steals trash." "A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin."
2.
Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash.
3.
A worthless person. (R.)
4.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.


verb
Trash  v. t.  (past & past part. trashed; pres. part. trashing)  
1.
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
2.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. (Obs.)
3.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. (R.)


Trash  v. i.  To follow with violence and trampling. (R.)





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"Trash" Quotes from Famous Books



... how to grant suits, How to deny them, whom to advance, and whom 80 To trash for over-topping, new created The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em, Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was 85 The ivy which had ...
— The Tempest - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare
... approve his manner; but the scheme is Mr. Secretary St. John's and mine, and would have done well enough in good hands. I recommended him to a printer,(19) whom I sent for, and settled the matter between them this evening. Harrison has just left me, and I am tired with correcting his trash. ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... face was a ludicrous study of mingled terror, defiance, and contempt. "Uv all ther low-down, no-'count, beggarly trash ever I laid eyes on," she said in a low tone to Merrill, "I allow these yere air the wust! But I allow they'd flatten us all aout in jest abaout a minnit, if they wuz to set aout tew! Ef she ain't hyar, we air in ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... "Some trash about your being the great American beauty, with the most odious details, and your having made a match among the 'rare old exclusives.' And the strangest stuff about your father—his having gone into a 'store' at the age of twelve. And something about your poor sister—heaven ...
— The Reverberator • Henry James
... Dwarf; "the trash is as genuine poison as ever was dug out of the bowels of the earth. Take it—use it, and may it thrive with you as it hath done ...
— The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott


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