thresh

1. 1. To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
   2. To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
2. To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.
3. To beat severely; thrash.

1. To use a machine or flail to separate grain or seeds from straw.
2. To thrash about; toss.

[Middle English thresshen, from Old English therscan.]

verb

1. To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: flail, thrash. See attack/defend, strike/miss.
2. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash. Informal lambaste. Slang clobber. Idioms: rain blows on. See attack/defend, strike/miss.
3. To swing about or strike at wildly: flail, thrash, toss. Idioms: toss and turn. See attack/defend, move/halt, strike/miss.

phrasal verb - thresh out (or over)

To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about: bandy (about), discuss, moot, talk over, thrash out (or over), toss around. Informal hash (over), kick around, knock about (or around). Slang rap³. Idioms: go into a huddle. See words.

An animal powered thresher

Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. It is the step in grain preparation before winnowing, which separates the loosened chaff from the grain. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain.

Threshing may be done by beating the grain using a flail on a threshing floor. However, in developed areas it is now mostly done by machine, usually by a combine harvester, which threshes as well as harvesting the plant and cleaning the grain.

Another traditional method of threshing is to make donkeys or oxen walk in circles on the grain on a hard surface. A modern version of this in some areas is to spread the grain on the surface of a country road so the grain may be threshed by the wheels of passing vehicles.

The cereal may be stored in a threshing barn

See also

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• Threshing floor
• Threshing-board
• Threshing machine
• Winnowing

Threshing with hand flails, Great Britain, c. 1750.

Irreler Bauertradition shows threshing by hand - Roscheider Hof, Open Air Museum

Threshing floor -

Ludovic Bassarab's La treierat ("Threshing"), showing peasants in Romanian dress around a combine harvester

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - tærske
v. intr. - tærske korn

Nederlands (Dutch)
dorsen

Français (French)
v. tr. - battre (le blé)
v. intr. - battre (le blé)
n. - battage (des blés), batteuse

Deutsch (German)
v. - dreschen, um sich schlagen, durchdiskutieren
n. - Dreschen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - αλωνίζω, (μτφ.) μαστιγώνω, κοπανίζω
n. - αλωνισμός

Italiano (Italian)
trebbiare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - trilhar, debulhar, espancar
n. - espancamento (m)

Русский (Russian)
хлестать, стегать, пороть, молотить, победить, всыпать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - trillar, desgranar
v. intr. - trillar, desgranar
n. - acción de desgranar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - tröska
n. - tröskning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
脱粒, 翻滚, 反复的打击, 打谷, 颠簸, 打

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 脫粒, 翻滾, 反復的打擊, 打穀
v. intr. - 打穀, 顛簸, 打

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 타작하다, 찬찬하게 훑어보다, 때리다
v. intr. - 타작하다, 뒹굴다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - ころげ回る, 脱穀する
n. - 脱穀

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يجلد, يضرب, يدرس, ( الحنطه) (الاسم) دارس, الحنطه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮דש, חבט שיבולים, ניתח בעיה‬
v. intr. - ‮הניע את גפיו באליומות או בבהלה‬

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