Thresh
verb
To separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism.
Farmers used to thresh wheat by beating it.
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- thresh grain
- thresh wheat
verb
To move about or flail violently and randomly.
He was threshing about in the water, trying to stay afloat.
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- thresh about
- thresh in pain
verb
To discuss rigorously and in detail; to debate.
They threshed out the details of the contract all night.
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- thresh out an issue
- thresh out a plan
verb
To separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism.
Farmers used to thresh wheat by beating it.
Often appears as...
- thresh grain
- thresh wheat
verb
To move about or flail violently and randomly.
He was threshing about in the water, trying to stay afloat.
Often appears as...
- thresh about
- thresh in pain
verb
To discuss rigorously and in detail; to debate.
They threshed out the details of the contract all night.
Often appears as...
- thresh out an issue
- thresh out a plan
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Roots
Originally used in farming, indicates physical separation of grain.
The new machine can thresh large quantities of corn faster.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Practice
Before machinery, threshing was a labor-intensive, manual process.
My grandfather would thresh the harvest using a traditional flail.
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Titanic: A Remembrance PIPE...
when the thresh from the Scorpion blew up underwater is called an implosion the currents were carrying the lighter material and it made a comet a debris trail I didn't know about that till I
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A forgotten ancient...
to sell and use fonio unless they devote a huge amount of time and energy in threshing, winnowing and husking it. In our vision, the mill will take on those tasks,
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Titanic: A Remembrance PIPE...
when the thresh from the Scorpion blew up underwater is called an implosion the currents were carrying the lighter material and it made a comet a debris trail I didn't know about that till I
Video examples
A forgotten ancient...
to sell and use fonio unless they devote a huge amount of time and energy in threshing, winnowing and husking it. In our vision, the mill will take on those tasks,
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Quote examples
Jean Froissart
French Historian
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
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Clyde Tombaugh
American Scientist
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
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Clyde Tombaugh
American Scientist
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
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Steve Rushin
American Journalist
The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.
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Fanny Kemble
English Actress
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
American Author
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Jean Froissart
French Historian
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
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Clyde Tombaugh
American Scientist
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
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Clyde Tombaugh
American Scientist
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
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Steve Rushin
American Journalist
The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.
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Fanny Kemble
English Actress
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
American Author
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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