Associations to the word «Threescore»

Wiktionary

THREESCORE, noun. (archaic) Sixty. (60)

Dictionary definition

THREESCORE, noun. A set with 3 times 20 members.
THREESCORE, adjective. Being ten more than fifty.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats