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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 strawThe 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
well2.
Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
I rather would be Maevius,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
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.
Definition 2024
thresh
thresh
English
Verb
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.
- (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
Quotations
- 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
- You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance? You do? Good.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to separate the grain from the straw or husks
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