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