thresh

«thresh» in Mova's school dictionary: To beat or shake cut wheat, oats or other grain to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (thresh, threshes, threshed, threshing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To beat or shake cut wheat, oats or other grain to separate the seeds from the stalks and husks. tree →

2) To move about wildly, thrashing arms or legs (old or less common; usually «thrash»). tree →

sense in the lessons

A farming and history word. Long ago farmers threshed grain by beating it with a flail on the barn floor; later steam threshing machines came round to farms; today combine harvesters cut and thresh at once. In The Wind in the Willows the countryside around has fields and barns where grain is threshed. Related: «threshold» — the old floor-board at a doorway.

examples

• The farmers threshed the wheat in the barn. tree →
• A combine harvester cuts and threshes the grain. tree →
• Long ago, people threshed oats with a flail. tree →
• The threshing machine was noisy and dusty. tree →
• After threshing, the straw was stacked. tree →
• We saw how grain was threshed at the farm museum. tree →
• The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain. tree →

note

Regular verb. Related noun «thresher». Do not confuse with «thrash» (to hit hard or to move wildly), though in old books they overlap.

In the corpora

• Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.
• Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?
• Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thresh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.