Meaning & use
Threshing
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The agricultural process of separating grain or seeds from the stalks and husks of a harvested crop.
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Farmers once relied on threshing by hand with flails before mechanical threshers were invented.
The old threshing floor was worn smooth from decades of use.
A note on using this word
The word survives in the idiom "separate the wheat from the chaff," which draws directly on this traditional farming process.
Another way to use it
2. verb
moving violently or thrashing about.
The fish kept threshing in the net, trying to break free.
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