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Most of us are commonly familair with the use of the word Threshold, in order to describe a doorway, or entry way, but where did that term first come from?
In the middle ages, when peseants commonly had dirt floors, they would bring in hay, and grass to lay down upon the floor to make it softer, and then lay down a plank of wood before the doorway, to help keep it back and from just sweeping out into the street.
And thresh is a word that was used to desribe grasses, so it was that the wooden plank, head back the thresh.
9:09 PM - 10/4/2007 -
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