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.)
... you are aiming at," replied Barescythe, sharply. "You twit me with praising these books so extravagantly. I grant you that worse trash was never in type, (DAISY is not printed yet, you know,) but will you allow me to ask you ... — Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read full book for free!
... "She was always bringing things from New York. Her sort of people never seem to have enough. They keep storing and piling up every sort of trash. Grandie would get out of patience at times and threaten to throw it all ... — The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis Read full book for free!
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... the recollection "where she got to 'Oh Bop—my angel Bop—' I just rolled under the table, and stuffed the table-cover in my mouth to keep from screaming right out. By and by I heard her call Debby, and give her the papers, and say: 'Here is a mass of trash which I wish you to put at once into the kitchen fire.' And she told me afterward that she thought I would be in an insane asylum before I was twenty. It was too bad," ended Katy half laughing and ... — What Katy Did • Susan Coolidge Read full book for free!
... was being enacted Phil was perfectly happy and strangely unconscious of any trouble. She was still at work, sweeping the upper deck and clearing it of the trash she had made with her gardening. She was humming gayly to herself or she would have heard the sounds below more plainly. "There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise." She stopped short. She had heard a noise, as though something had fallen. But then, the girls were always dropping ... — Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid • Amy D. V. Chalmers Read full book for free!
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