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.
- 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.
- 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 .
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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