SkyfireDict

threshing   (TTS Sound)

The noun threshing has 1 sense

• threshing -- (the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw; "they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it")

The verb thresh has 4 senses

• convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate -- (move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed")


• flail, thresh -- (move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing")


• thrash, thresh -- (beat the seeds out of a grain)


• thrash, thresh, lam, flail -- (give a thrashing to; beat hard)