thresh
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.?
Proto-Germanic *þreskaną
Old English þrescan
Middle English threschen
English thresh
From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.
Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.
Inflected forms:
form: threshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: threshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: threshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: threshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
gloss: To violently toss the limbs about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
examples: The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
gloss: To belabor; to go over repeatedly, especially an argument.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
usually
gloss: To drive through adverse conditions (wind, waves).
pos: verb
Synonyms: thrash
Derived words: threshable
threshel
thresher
thresherman
threshing
threshing sledge
threshold
thresh out
unthreshed
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: dors
lang: Amharic
word: ወቃ
roman: wäḳa
lang: Arabic
word: دَرَسَ
roman: darasa
lang: Armenian
word: կալսել
roman: kalsel
lang: Aromanian
word: triyir
lang: Basque
word: eultzitu
lang: Bulgarian
word: вършея
roman: vǎršeja
lang: Catalan
word: trillar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 打穀 /打谷
roman: dǎgǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 脫粒 /脱粒
roman: tuōlì
lang: Czech
word: mlátit
lang: Danish
word: tærske
lang: Dutch
word: dorsen
lang: Emilian
word: bāter
lang: Esperanto
word: draŝi
lang: Faroese
word: treskja
lang: Finnish
word: puida
lang: French
word: battre
lang: French
word: fouler
lang: Galician
word: mallar
lang: Galician
word: trillar
lang: Georgian
word: დაბეგვა
roman: dabegva
lang: German
word: dreschen
lang: Greek
word: αλωνίζω
roman: alonízo
lang: Hebrew
word: דש
roman: dash
lang: Hindi
word: गाहना
roman: gāhnā
lang: Hungarian
word: csépel
lang: Icelandic
word: þreskja
lang: Ido
word: drashar
lang: Ingrian
word: tappaa
lang: Italian
word: trebbiare
lang: Japanese
word: 脱穀する
roman: dakkoku suru
lang: Korean
word: 뒹굴다
roman: dwinggulda
lang: Korean
word: 도리깨질하다
roman: dorikkaejilhada
lang: Latgalian
word: kuļt
lang: Latin
word: trituro
lang: Latvian
word: kult
lang: Luxembourgish
word: dreschen
lang: Macedonian
word: врши
roman: vrši
lang: Maltese
word: derra
lang: Megleno-Romanian
word: trăir
lang: Megleno-Romanian
word: trighir
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: treske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: treske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: treskje
lang: Old Norse
word: þreskja
lang: Polish
word: młócić
lang: Portuguese
word: malhar
lang: Portuguese
word: espalhar
lang: Portuguese
word: debulhar
lang: Quechua
word: t'ustuy
lang: Romanian
word: treiera
lang: Russian
word: молоти́ть
roman: molotítʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: buail
lang: Slovak
word: mlátiť
lang: Spanish
word: trillar
lang: Spanish
word: desgranar
lang: Spanish
word: apalear
lang: Spanish
word: azotar
lang: Swedish
word: tröska
lang: Turkish
word: harman çevirmek
lang: Turkish
word: harmanlamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: молоти́ти
roman: molotýty
lang: Unami
word: paitehike
lang: Vietnamese
word: đập
lang: Volapük
word: cepön
lang: Welsh
word: dyrnu
lang: Yiddish
word: דרעשן
roman: dreshn