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Webster 1913 Edition

Thresh

{

Thrash

,

Thresh

}
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Thrashed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Thrashing
.]
[OE.
þreschen
,
þreshen
, to beat, AS.
þerscan
,
þrescan
; akin to D.
dorschen
, OD.
derschen
, G.
dreschen
, OHG.
dreskan
, Icel.
þreskja
, Sw.
tröska
, Dan.
tærske
, Goth.
þriskan
, Lith.
traszketi
to rattle, Russ.
treskate
to burst, crackle,
tresk’
a crash, OSlav.
troska
a stroke of lighting. Cf.
Thresh
.]
1.
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain;
as, to
thrash
wheat, rye, or oats; to
thrash
over the old straw
.
The wheat was reaped,
thrashed
, and winnowed by machines.
H. Spencer.
2.
To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
{

Thrash

,

Thresh

}
,
Verb.
T.
1.
To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw;
as, a man who
thrashes
well
.
2.
Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
I rather would be Maevius,
thrash
for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
Dryden.

Thresh

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Threshed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Threshing
.]
Same as
Thrash
.
He would
thresh
, and thereto dike and delve.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Thresh

THRESH

,
Verb.
T.
To thrash. [See Thrash.] The latter is the popular pronunciation, but the word is written thrash or thresh, indifferently. [See the derivation and definitions under Thrash.]

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