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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#m1)

2) To move about wildly, thrashing arms or legs (old or less common; usually «thrash»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x1)
- A combine harvester cuts and threshes the grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x2)
- Long ago, people threshed oats with a flail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x3)
- The threshing machine was noisy and dusty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x4)
- After threshing, the straw was stacked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x5)
- We saw how grain was threshed at the farm museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x6)
- The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.55/)
- [Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1070/)
- [Now Ornan was threshing wheat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.774/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thresh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.