bethrustEtymologyFrom be- (“at, over, across”) + thrust.verbTo thrust forth or about; thrust forward, toward, or out.“The early twilight descended in mercy over the half-crazed inmates of the household, who offered up their truest thanksgiving when Mrs. Duncan and her brood stowed themselves once more into the cutter of which it might have been wondered how it contrived to hold them all, and with a parting hoot from some slily bethrust member of the young fraternity, they started homeward.”