English

Alternative forms

• thrush, thrust (dialectal)

Noun

thurse ‎(plural thurses)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) A giant; a gigantic spectre; an apparition.

   • 2010, Stephan Grundy, Beowulf (Fiction), iUniverse, ISBN 9781440156977, page 33:

     And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.