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1. The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw
   "they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it"

1. Move or stir about violently
   "The feverish patient threshed around in his bed"; "The feverish patient threshed about around in his bed"
   - convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
    
2. Move like a flail; thresh about
   "Her arms were threshing"
   - flail
    
3. Beat the seeds out of a grain
   - thrash
    
4. Give a thrashing to; beat hard
   - thrash, lam, flail

Derived forms: threshings

See also: thresher

Type of: agitate, beat, beat up, flap, separation, shake, work over

Encyclopedia: Thresh