Found 3 items, similar to thresh.
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Definition: thresh
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: thresh
thresh
v 1: move or stir about violently;
“The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed” [syn:
convulse,
thresh about,
thrash,
thrash about,
slash,
toss,
jactitate]
2: move like a flail; thresh about;
“Her arms were flailing”
[syn:
flail]
3: beat the seeds out of a grain [syn:
thrash]
4: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn:
thrash,
lam,
flail]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Thresh
Thresh
\Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Threshed; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Threshing.]
Same as
Thrash.
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He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
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Thrash
\Thrash\, Thresh
\Thresh\, v. t.
1. 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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2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
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I rather would be M[ae]vius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
--Dryden.
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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.]
1. 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.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
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