Definition of Thresh

1. Verb. Move or stir about violently. "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

Exact synonyms: Convulse, Jactitate, Slash, Thrash, Thrash About, Thresh About, Toss
Generic synonyms: Agitate, Shake
Specialized synonyms: Whip
Derivative terms: Jactitation, Thrash, Toss

2. Verb. Move like a flail; thresh about. "Her arms were flailing"
Exact synonyms: Flail
Generic synonyms: Beat, Flap

3. Verb. Beat the seeds out of a grain. "The fighter managed to thresh his opponent"
Exact synonyms: Thrash
Category relationships: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry
Generic synonyms: Beat
Derivative terms: Thrasher, Thresher, Threshing

4. Verb. Give a thrashing to; beat hard. "They want to thresh the prisoners "
Exact synonyms: Flail, Lam, Thrash
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Up, Work Over
Related verbs: Bat, Clobber, Cream, Drub, Lick, Thrash
Derivative terms: Flail, Thrashing

Definition of Thresh

1. v. t. & i. Same as Thrash.

Definition of Thresh

1. Verb. (transitive agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thresh

1. to separate the grain or seeds from a plant mechanically [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thresh

threonine deaminase
threonine dehydratase
threonine permease
threonines
threonucleic
threonucleic acid
threonucleic acids
threonyl
threonyl tRNA synthetase kinase
threonyls
threose
threose nucleic acid
threoses
threpe
threpsology
thresh (current term)
thresh about
thresh out
threshable
threshed
threshel
threshels
thresher
thresher's lung
thresher shark
thresher sharks
thresherman
threshermen
threshers
threshes

Literary usage of Thresh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"3P Thrash, thresh. An1 first cou'd thrash the barn, The Ans. to the ... To thresh my back at sic a pitch ? . . What ails ye now t Thrasher ». thresher. ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"thresh, J: C. net $2. Blakiston. Water-supply engineering. Folwell, AP $4. Wiley. Waterworks for small cities. Goodell, J: $2. The Engineering Record. ..."

3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"... a very confident vein: —"Every man can say Bee to a Battledore, and write in prayse of Vertue and the Seven Liberall Sciences, thresh corne out of ..."

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