thresh
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.
Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]thresh (third-person singular simple present threshes, present participle threshing, simple past and past participle threshed)
- (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
- (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
- (intransitive, literary) To violently toss the limbs about.
- 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
- The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to separate the grain from the straw or husks
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Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]thresh
- Alternative form of thrash (“a rush”)
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