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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 separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
  • winnowing noun The act of separating chaff 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

  1. noun An old farming tool with a short swinging stick attached to a handle, used to beat grain loose from its husks.
  2. noun A weapon with a heavy striking head joined to the handle by a chain or flexible link.
  3. verb To wave or swing about wildly and without control.

thresh — full definition

  1. verb To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
  2. verb To be so separated, or to be capable of being so separated.
  3. verb To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
  4. verb To violently toss the limbs about.

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