What does "thresh" mean?
Thresh: To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
Additional senses
- 2.To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
- 3.Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.
- 4.Same as Thrash. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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