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thresh Definition

thresh (t̸hres̸h)

transitive verb

  1. to beat out (grain) from its husk, as with a flail
  2. to beat grain out of (husks)
  3. to beat or strike as with a flail

Etymology: ME threschen: earlier form of thrash

intransitive verb

  1. to thresh grain
  2. to toss about; thrash

thresh Idioms

thresh out

thrash out (see phrase under thrash)

thresh Synonyms

thresh

v.

  1. To free grain or seed from hulls

    flail, tread, separate, winnow, sift, thrash, beat, garner; see also beat 2.

  2. To chastise

    trounce, whip, hit; see beat 2, punish.

thresh Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • corn: This is often taken to mean the threshing of the corn to produce bread and the trampling of grapes to produce wine.

Object

  • sledge: Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  • barn: Sometimes the threshing barn was separate from the granary.
  • wheat: In threshing wheat for seed, care should be taken that the machine is well cleansed of the grain it has previously threshed.
  • corn: Then thresh the new corn fighting off help from E, who spends most of the day ( possibly all day ) naked.
  • grain: G:Fgns A majority of the samples in the ' pit fills ' class contain free threshing wheat grains ( 52 % ).
  • machine: The threshing machine knocked out the grain from the ears of corn.

Subject

  • hand: Corn was normally threshed by hand with a flail during the winter months.

Modifying Another Word

  • about: Despite many calming hands he threshed about, pointing at the empty space behind his father.
  • then: Then thresh the new corn fighting off help from E, who spends most of the day ( possibly all day ) naked.

Preposition: by

  • hand: Corn was normally threshed by hand with a flail during the winter months.