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- Dictionarythresh/θrɛʃ/
verb
- 1. separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism: "machinery that can reap and thresh corn in the same process"
- 2. move violently; thrash: "a creature threshing in a net"
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Thresh is a verb that means to separate seed from a harvested plant mechanically or to strike repeatedly. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries.
Thresh means to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of thresh with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Thresh means to separate the grain or seeds from a cereal plant by beating or machine. It can also mean to beat or strike something. Learn more about its usage, history and synonyms.
To thresh is to harvest seeds from grain by beating or crushing it. Before the invention of machines to do this task, it took a huge amount of time to thresh grain by hand. To make this tedious task go faster, farmers used to thresh in groups, throwing threshing bees where neighbors worked together.
Thresh means to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, see translations and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Thresh means to separate grains of rice, wheat, etc. from the rest of the plant or to move or make something move violently. Learn how to use thresh in sentences, pronounce it and find synonyms.
Thresh means to beat or rub cereal plants to separate the grains from the husks and straw. It can also mean to beat or strike something or someone, or to toss and turn. See synonyms, pronunciation, grammar and idioms of thresh.
