THRESH

thrash, thresh, lam, flail

(verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard

thrash, thresh

(verb) beat the seeds out of a grain

convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate

(verb) move or stir about violently; “The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed”

flail, thresh

(verb) move like a flail; thresh about; “Her arms were flailing”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

thresh (third-person singular simple present threshes, present participle threshing, simple past and past participle threshed)

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

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

Synonyms

• thrash

Source: Wiktionary

Thrash, Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] Etym: [OE. , , to beat, AS. , ; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]

1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash, Thresh, v. t.

1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.

Thresh, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed; p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.]

Definition: Same as Thrash. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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