Added 10 October 2026
thresh
/θɹɛʃ/ verb
In Latin: trituro Wiktionary
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- To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them. To be so separated, or to be capable of being so separated.
- To be so separated, or to be capable of being so separated.
- To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
Origin
From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). Doublet of thrash.
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