thresh
7 synonyms for thresh, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To beat crops so the grain comes away from the straw or husks, using a flail, machinery, or animals driven over them.
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Etymology
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. Cognates Cognate with Dutch dor...
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