Etymology
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From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.
Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.
Pronunciation
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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, or by driving animals over them.
- (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
- (intransitive, literary) To violently toss the limbs about.
1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
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Translations
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to separate the grain from the straw or husks
- Afrikaans: dors
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: دَرَسَ (ar) (darasa)
- Armenian: կալսել (hy) (kalsel)
- Aromanian: triyir
- Basque: eultzitu
- Bulgarian: вършея (bg) (vǎršeja)
- Catalan: trillar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 打穀／打谷 (zh) (dǎgǔ), 脫粒／脱粒 (zh) (tuōlì)
- Czech: mlátit (cs)
- Danish: tærske
- Dutch: dorsen (nl)
- Emilian: bāter
- Esperanto: draŝi (eo)
- Faroese: treskja
- Finnish: puida (fi)
- French: battre (fr), fouler (fr)
- Galician: mallar (gl), trillar (gl)
- Georgian: დაბეგვა (dabegva)
- German: dreschen (de)
- Greek: αλωνίζω (el) (alonízo)
- Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: דש (he) (dash)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: csépel (hu)
- Icelandic: þreskja (is)
- Ingrian: tappaa
- Italian: trebbiare (it)
- Japanese: 脱穀する (ja) (だっこくする, dakkoku suru)
- Korean: 뒹굴다 (ko) (dwinggulda), 도리깨질하다 (dorikkaejilhada)
- Latgalian: kuļt
- Latin: trituro
- Latvian: kult (lv)
- Luxembourgish: dreschen (lb)
- Macedonian: врши (vrši)
- Maltese: derra
- Norman: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: treske (no)
- Nynorsk: treske, treskje
- Old Norse: þreskja
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: młócić (pl)
- Portuguese: malhar (pt), espalhar (pt), debulhar (pt)
- Quechua: t'ustuy
- Romanian: treiera (ro)
- Russian: молоти́ть (ru) (molotítʹ)
- Scots: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: buail
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: mlátiť
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: trillar (es), desgranar (es), apalear (es), azotar (es)
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: tröska (sv)
- Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: harman çevirmek (tr), harmanlamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: молоти́ти (molotýty)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: đập (vi)
- Welsh: dyrnu (cy)
- Yiddish: דרעשן (dreshn)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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thresh
- Alternative form of thrash (“a rush”)
