Thresh
[θreʃ] or [θrɛʃ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Thrash.
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Definition
a flail; Thresh′er the fox-shark; Thresh′er-whale the grampus.
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Examples
- We thresh fascists today,' said one, 'and out of the chaff comes the freedom of this pueblo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Menzies of Scotland, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was the first to invent a threshing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The wheat is headed, threshed, cleaned and sacked by this machine in one continuous operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We have harvested but we have not threshed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The machine in the lower view is self-propelling, cuts and threshes the grain, throwing out the straw, and places the grain in sacks ready for loading on the wagon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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