Definition of thresh Thresh

/θɹɛˈʃ/ - [thresh] - thresh

We found 14 definitions of thresh from 6 different sources.

What does thresh mean?

Verb
thresh - move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
		convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
		agitate, shake change the arrangement or position of
		whip strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"
thresh - beat the seeds out of a grain
		thrash
		beat come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
		husbandry, farming, agriculture agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
thresh - give a thrashing to; beat hard
		thrash, lam, flail
		work over, beat up, beat gather; "drum up support"
thresh - move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
		flail
		flap, beat pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

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thresh (Verb)
To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
thresh (Verb)
To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

thresh (v. t.)
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.
thresh (v. t.)
To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
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.
thresh (v. t.)
Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
thresh (v. t. & i.)
Same as Thrash.

thresh
thresh (see Thrash).—ns. Thresh′el, a flail; Thresh′er, the fox-shark; Thresh′er-whale, the grampus

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