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Thresh, Thrash v. t. (past & past part. thrashed; pres. part. thrashing)

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."

To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thresh, Thrash v. t.

To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. "I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times."

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Etymology of 'Thrash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thrash" Quotes from Famous Books

... worry. I'm not going to thrash you—at least not now" said Dave, grimly. He was willing that Len should get what satisfaction he could ...

— Cowboy Dave • Frank V. Webster

... teeth will leave off aching, and if he does not, they will go on aching another three months; and that finally if you are still contumacious and still protest, all that is left you for your own gratification is to thrash yourself or beat your wall with your fist as hard as you can, and absolutely nothing more. Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of someone unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes ...

— Notes from the Underground • Feodor Dostoevsky

... angry at each other, and they looked just like two turkey-gobblers, their faces were so red, and they blustered about so. John declared that he would thrash Harry; and Harry made faces at John, and dared ...

— Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of it," Tom said, "and if I had been told so should only have answered that what was good enough for others was good enough for me. I came because Will came. We had always been great friends, and more than once joined to thrash a big fellow who put upon us. But the principal thing was that a little while ago he saved me from drowning. There was a deep cut running up to the foot of the cliffs. One day I was running past there, when I slipped, and in falling hurt my leg ...

— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty

... this was sweat he was certain it was going to be a horrible adventure. As he was drying his face, he took off his helmet, and when he smelled the curds he turned to Sancho in great perturbation and accused him of having put them there, calling him a traitor and a scoundrel, and threatening to thrash him. But Sancho eyed his master innocently, and blamed it all on the devil or some enchanter, saying that his master might know that if he had had curds, he would have put them in his stomach and ...

— The Story of Don Quixote • Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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