tröska — meaning in English
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English meaning
- flail noun An old farming tool with a short swinging stick attached to a handle, used to beat grain loose from its husks.
- thresh verb To beat crops so the grain comes away from the straw or husks, using a flail, machinery, or animals driven over them.
- winnowing noun The process of separating the husks from grain.
Senses
tröska is used for these senses in English:
- combine harvester A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.
- flail (transitive) To thresh.
- thresh (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
- winnowing act of separating chaff from grain
flail — full definition
- noun An old farming tool with a short swinging stick attached to a handle, used to beat grain loose from its husks.
- noun A weapon with a heavy striking head joined to the handle by a chain or flexible link.
- verb To wave or swing about wildly and without control.
thresh — full definition
- verb To beat crops so the grain comes away from the straw or husks, using a flail, machinery, or animals driven over them.
- verb To come away from the straw in this way, or be able to.
- verb (informal) To hit someone hard, usually with a stick or whip.
- verb To thrash your arms and legs about wildly.
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