thresh
/θrɛʃ/
verb
- To separate the grain from the rest of a plant, such as wheat or rice, by beating or using a machine.
- The combine harvester can thresh and clean the grain in one pass.
- After the harvest, they thresh the rice to remove the husks.
- Farmers used to thresh wheat by hand with a flail.
- To move or twist violently, often in pain or struggle.
- He threshed in his sleep, tangled in the sheets.
- The injured bird threshed its wings against the ground.
- The fish threshed wildly on the deck of the boat.