thresh
pronunciation
How to pronounce thresh in British English:
UK [θreʃ]
How to pronounce thresh in American English:
US [θrɛʃ]
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- Verb:
- move or stir about violently
- move like a flail; thresh about
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
Word Origin
- thresh (v.)
- Old English þrescan, þerscan, "to beat, sift grain by trampling or beating," from Proto-Germanic *threskan "to thresh," originally "to tread, to stamp noisily" (cognates: Middle Dutch derschen, Dutch dorschen, Old High German dreskan, German dreschen, Old Norse þreskja, Swedish tröska, Gothic þriskan), from PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, turn" (see throw (v.)). The basic notion is of men or oxen treading out wheat; later, with the advent of the flail, the word acquired its modern extended sense of "to knock, beat, strike." The original Germanic sense is suggested by the use of the word in Romanic languages that borrowed it, such as Italian trescare "to prance," Old French treschier "to dance," Spanish triscar "to stamp the feet."
Example
- 1. Move like a flail thresh about .
- 2. Design of green maize thresh crusher .
- 3. The threshing grounds in villages are used to dry and thresh crops .
- 4. Farmers thresh grain with threshing machines .
- 5. The farmers used to thresh the grain by hand , but now machines thresh it .