Thresh Definition

thrĕsh
threshed, threshes, threshing
verb
threshed, threshes, threshing
To beat out (grain) from its husk, as with a flail.
Webster's New World
To thresh grain.
Webster's New World
To beat grain out of (husks)
Webster's New World
To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.
American Heritage
To beat or strike as with a flail.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
thresh out
Webster's New World

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Origin of Thresh

  • From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną. Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German döschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English thresshen from Old English therscan terə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thresh Sentence Examples

  • It usually takes a day and a quarter to thresh the wheat which it took a day to cut.

  • It costs about $1.50 an acre to thresh the grain and put it into the elevator.

  • The farmer estimates that a threshing-machine can thresh all the wheat ordinarily grown upon 2500 acres, so that a 5000-acre farmer would have at least two machines running at the same time.

  • Another character, Tinny Day, came with his huge steam-engines to thresh the grain and stack the straw.

  • His interests in theoretical plant virus epidemiology were re-awakened by links with Mike Thresh and have subsequently developed into major research initiatives.

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Words Starting With

TTHTHR

Words Ending With

HSHESH

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Words Starting With T and Ending With H

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With T6 Letter Words Ending With H