Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thresh"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE.
[thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan,
[thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G.
dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska,
Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to
rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash,
OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. {Thresh}.]
1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the
straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the
kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to
thrash over the old straw.
The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t.
1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the
business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who
thrashes well.
2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
I rather would be M[ae]vius, thrash for rhymes, Like
his, the scorn and scandal of the times. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Threshed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Threshing}.]
Same as {Thrash}.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
thresh
v 1: move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: {convulse}, {thresh about}, {thrash},
{thrash about}, {slash}, {toss}]
2: move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
[syn: {flail}]
3: beat the seeds out of a grain; in agriculture [syn: {thrash}]
4: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: {thrash}, {lam}, {flail}]
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