Lexic.us

Definition of Thresh about

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thresh About

Literary usage of Thresh about

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

1. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1901)
"The smallest engines are used in the South, where they thresh about sixty to ... The Middle West takes an average size, as they thresh about 125 and 150 ..."

2. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"In this manner it is said that a horse will thresh about 100 bushels of corn in a day. It is commonly reckoned the work of a labourer to thresh about six ..."

3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1850)
"A man will pull three-fourths of an aero in a day, and will haul and thresh about the same quantity. They are usually ready for harvesting by the middle of ..."

4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1850)
"A man will pull three-fourths of an acre in a day, and will haul and thresh about the same quantity. They are usually ready for harvesting by the middle of ..."

5. Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1862)
"A machine of R. Kerr's, described by Sir John Sinclair in 1812, would with six horses, four men, and four women, thresh about three hundred bushel* of wheat ..."

6. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1870)
"I think I can thresh about five bushels from the eight pounds sown. At this rato, the yield would be forty bushels from a bushel and four pounds of seed, ..."

7. The New West: Or, California in 1867-1868 by Charles Loring Brace (1869)
"The machines go around from farm to farm and thresh about 900 bushels a day. The thresher gets $40 per day, and the cost is about 9 cents a bushel. ..."

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