Meaning & use
thresh
To separate grain or seeds from a harvested plant by beating or mechanically processing the stalks.
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Farmers used to thresh wheat by hand before machines made the process faster.
The old barn once stored the equipment used to thresh the autumn harvest.
A note on using this word
Threshing is an agricultural term, historically done by beating stalks on the ground and now typically performed by a combine harvester.
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