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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trash" Quotes from Famous Books

... waste paper," Bobby chuckled. "You'd better not go out on the street that way, or when the trash cart comes, the man will pick you up and ...

— Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun • Mabel C. Hawley

... nonsensical fables, to be sure—stuff that many an overwise mother, bringing up her children by hard rule and theory, might have utterly forbidden as harmful trash—yet that never put an evil into his heart, nor crowded, I dare to say, a better thought out of his brain. Glory liked the stories as well, almost, as the child. One moral always ran through them all. Troubles always, somehow, came to an ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... thing, obsolete and superfluous. And see! it is not even kept in decent order. The dust of many day's neglect has gathered thick upon its lids. Oh, Christian parents, when you thus close up the wells of salvation by the trash of degenerate taste and vitiated morals, you are despising the testimonies of the Lord, and leading your children step by step to the verge of destruction. You may buy them splendid, bibles, gilt and clasped with gold, and have their names labeled in golden letters upon its lid; ...

— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips

... startled. He knew there was no one living on the island. There were, in fact, few people at all in the vicinity—only an occasional negro shack or the similar shack of the "poor white trash," and a turpentine camp, several ...

— The Fire People • Ray Cummings

... ole!" cried Clorinda. "I tells you what, Caleb Benson, ef yer only undertuk this job to be a aggrawatin' and insultin' me, you and I's done! I ain't gwine to stand sich trash, now I tells yer! Is dis yer thanks fur all I'se done? Who got ye de run ob de house, I'd like to know; who sot ye up for selling better fish than anybody in de neighborhood; who nebber said nothin' when de soap-fat ...

— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens

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