thresh /ˈθræʃ, ˈθrɛʃ/
(vt.)打穀,打,翻滾,反復做,推敲(vi.)打穀,打,顛簸
Thrash Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.]
1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer.
2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
Thrash, Thresh, v. t.
1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. --Dryden.
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Thresh v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.] Same as Thrash.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
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thresh
v 1: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh about, thrash,
thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]
2: move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
[syn: flail]
3: beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thrash]
4: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, lam, flail]