Brewer's: Threshers

Members of the Catholic organisation instituted in 1806. One object was to resist the payment of tithes. Their threats and warnings were signed “Captain Thresher.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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