Lexic.us

Definition of Thresh

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

2. Verb. Move like a flail; thresh about. "Her arms were flailing"

3. Verb. Beat the seeds out of a grain. "The fighter managed to thresh his opponent"

4. Verb. Give a thrashing to; beat hard. "They want to thresh the prisoners "

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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