thresh

Definitions

1. 1.To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
2. 2.To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
3. 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. 4.Same as Thrash. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub called?
• What is to practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is same as Thrash. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer called?