Crossword clues for thresh
thresh
- Beat, as grain
- Beat hard
- Beat, as wheat
- Separate grains from wheat, e.g.
- Separate the wheat from the chaff
- Separate wheat from chaff
- What combines do
- Do some post-harvesting work
- Do some farmwork
- Separate the seeds from
- Flail
- Separate seed
- Use a flail
- Extract grain from husks
- Separate grains from wheat, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed; p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.] Same as Thrash.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve.
--Chaucer.
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t.
To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
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Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
I rather would be M[ae]vius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
--Dryden.
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska, Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]
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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.
The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines.
--H. Spencer. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English þrescan, þerscan, "to beat, sift grain by trampling or beating," from Proto-Germanic *threskan "to thresh," originally "to tread, to stamp noisily" (cognates: Middle Dutch derschen, Dutch dorschen, Old High German dreskan, German dreschen, Old Norse þreskja, Swedish tröska, Gothic þriskan), from PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, turn" (see throw (v.)).\n
\nThe basic notion is of men or oxen treading out wheat; later, with the advent of the flail, the word acquired its modern extended sense of "to knock, beat, strike." The original Germanic sense is suggested by the use of the word in Romanic languages that borrowed it, such as Italian trescare "to prance," Old French treschier "to dance," Spanish triscar "to stamp the feet."
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive agriculture English) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. 2 (context transitive literary English) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
WordNet
v. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]
move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" [syn: flail]
beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thrash]
Wikipedia
Thresh may refer to:
In agriculture
- Threshing
In fiction
- A minor character in the novel The Hunger Games, portrayed by Dayo Okeniyi in the novel's 2012 film adaptation.
In gaming
- Dennis "Thresh" Fong
- Thresh, the Chain Warden, a playable champion character in the action real-time strategy video game League of Legends
Usage examples of "thresh".
While I am skinning and brittling this fine doe for our meal, you go and thresh the bushes and grasses roundabout for every kind of seed you can collect.
Nor did it appear to give him any consolation to be aware of the commotion he was causing on the other side of the wall, where a threshing machine of an antiquated sort responded with multiform movement to the monotony of his round-and-round.
The warmth was of the meagerest, and the street lamps, birds of fire in cages of glass, fluttered and danced in the prolonged gusts of the trade wind that threshed and weltered in the city streets from off the ocean.
Nor does a statute providing that the purchaser of harvesting or threshing machinery for his own use shall have a reasonable time after delivery for inspecting and testing it, and permitting recission of the contract if the machinery does not prove reasonably adequate, and further declaring any agreement contrary to its provisions to be against public policy and void, does not violate the due process clause.
Though Elaira kept her shielded presence well grounded, the buffeting journey left her winnowed like chaff threshed in the wake of a squall line.
Wheat, ready to be gathered and threshed, but the newest and yellowest and downiest of Mrs.
The feedboard to the threshing machine got jammed just when halfway through the first stack, and he is in a lamentable temper.
There was a threshing rush, the waters stormed foamily, there was a glimpse of a blunted, reptilian snout, and the trailing body vanished with it.
The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house.
Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless.
He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten.
Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.
He thought of what had just a little while ago, Jocko cau threshing machine that had been wielding a bread knife.
The casura was nothing but eyes and mouths and rootlike, spidery hands, the whole flung together like chopped grasshoppers caught in a threshing basket.
Commence to feed the crop green as soon as the pods are formed, and continue to feed out the crop, threshed or unthreshed, until the middle of November.