Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
- intransitive verb To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
- intransitive verb To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.
- intransitive verb To beat severely; thrash.
- intransitive verb To use a machine or flail to separate grain or seeds from straw.
- intransitive verb To thrash about; toss.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beat out or separate the grain or seeds from, by means of a flail or a threshing-machine, or by treading with oxen: in this sense commonly thresh.
- To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; drub; hence, to beat in any way: in this sense commonly thrash.
- To practise threshing; beat out grain from straw with a flail or a threshing-machine: in this sense commonly thresh.
- To beat about; labor; drudge; toil.
- To throw one's self about; toss to and fro: usually with about: in this sense commonly thrash.
- noun See
thrash . - In wire-drawing, to raise (a wire rod or bar of small section) high in the air and throw it heavily against a flat smooth plate on the ground in order to straighten it or to loosen the scale and dirt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Same as
thrash .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, agriculture To
separate thegrain from thestraw orhusks by mechanical beating, with aflail ormachinery . - verb transitive, literary To beat
soundly , usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; todrub .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give a thrashing to; beat hard
- verb move like a flail; thresh about
- verb beat the seeds out of a grain
- verb move or stir about violently
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many plants have heads so large they're easy to harvest or "thresh" once they finish flowering and drying.
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Many plants have heads so large they're easy to harvest or "thresh" once they finish flowering and drying.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Many plants have heads so large they're easy to harvest or "thresh" once they finish flowering and drying.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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I would do almost anything necesary to protect my dog cause from the moment its feet pass over the thresh hold of my house that dog is a part of my family.
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All for to go to market, boys, we must thresh in the barn.
Letter 94 2009
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Extraordinarily rare even among the most accomplished seamstresses, chefs and carpenters are those who spin their own fibers, thresh their own wheat or trim their own lumber—all once common skills.
Why We Prize That Magical Mystery Pad Virginia Postrel 2011
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There is a killing power thresh hold beyond which is simply more unnecessry bang,. and under no circumstances I am aware of dose that required power level (IE: bang/killing power) reach that required to blow up guns and people.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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I would do almost anything necesary to protect my dog cause from the moment its feet pass over the thresh hold of my house that dog is a part of my family.
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There is a killing power thresh hold beyond which is simply more unnecessry bang,. and under no circumstances I am aware of dose that required power level (IE: bang/killing power) reach that required to blow up guns and people.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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The next elections which are state primaries will thresh out some of these Libertarians that will face the onslaught of a real press.
yarb commented on the word thresh
...idyllic becomes fearful silence as I awake
to you already arisen, the stready thresh
and much nearer shadow of the quiet harvester.
- Peter Reading, Combine, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008