threshing

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

present participle and gerund of thresh

Noun

The process by which something is threshed.

thresh

1. (transitive) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
2. (literary, transitive) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
3. (intransitive, literary) To violently toss the limbs about.

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Concepts

battage

Synonymes

thrashing

flailing

harvest

thresh

winnowing

seed extraction

beating off rice

thresh grain

beating

shelling seed husking

Traductions

trebbiatura

debulha

trilla

Dreschen

αλώνισμα

درس

trebbia

battitura col correggiato

debulhação

الدراسة

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: thresshyng

In summary

From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.