thresh
Meaning
- To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
- To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
- To violently toss the limbs about.
Synonyms
thresh about
trample out
thresh rice
belabour
Pronounced as (IPA)
/θɹɛʃ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną. Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.
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