thresh

thresh
/thresh/, v.t.
1. to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
2. to beat as if with a flail.
v.i.
3. to thresh wheat, grain, etc.
4. to deliver blows as if with a flail.
5. thresh out or over. See thrash (def. 8).
n.
6. the act of threshing.
Also, thrash.
[bef. 900; ME threschen, thresshen, OE threscan; c. G dreschen, Goth thriskan; akin to D dorsen, ON thriskja]

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