thresh
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
thresh (threshes, present participle threshing; 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.
- French: battre
- German: dreschen
- Italian: trebbiare
- Portuguese: malhar, espalhar, debulhar
- Russian: молоти́ть
- Spanish: trillar, desgranar, apalear, azotar
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