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Definition of Thrashing

1. Noun. A sound defeat.

2. Noun. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.

Definition of Thrashing

1. Verb. (present participle of thrash) ¹

2. Noun. action of the verb ''to thrash'' ¹

3. Noun. a beating, especially a severe one ¹

4. Noun. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage ¹

5. Noun. (dance) slam dancing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thrashing

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrashing

thrappled thrapples thrash thrash about thrash metal thrash out thrashcore thrashed thrashel thrashels

thrasher thrashers thrashes thrashier thrashiest thrashing (current term) thrashing floor thrashing floors thrashingfloor thrashingfloors

thrashings thrasht thrashy thrasonic thrasonical thrasonically thrave thraves thraw thraward

Literary usage of Thrashing

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

1. Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics by James Ferguson (1814)
"1. are only about three-quarters of an inch from the heaters, while the thrashing-drum or scutch revolving with immense rapidity and force, separates the ..."

2. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"At Cornell rows of like kind are taken to the thrashing shed ... .Several machines which can be cleaned easily have been devised for thrashing. ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1862)
"On some large farms, however, having central buildings, in which a great deal of thrashing is done besides grinding, chaff-cutting, &c., so as nearly to ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Wherever, then, a thrashing-mill is used at all, it may be safely asserted that, next to water, steam is the cheapest power by which it can be propelled. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It has been satisfactorily shown that grain can be thrashed and dressed by well-constructed, steam-propelled machinery, at one- fourth the cost of thrashing ..."

6. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and by Charles Knight (1856)
"Contrast this achievement with the ancient method, still followed in some eastern countries, of thrashing grain by means of the feet of cattle. ..."

7. A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898 by Henry Rider Haggard (1899)
"The beans also are thrashing out well, about eleven coomb to the acre. It is curious to look at the steamer and listen to its hungry swelling hum as it ..."

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