Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 62785 6805073 2009-06-15T20:16:53Z Doremítzwr 14678 /* Verb */ +2009 cite ==English== ===Etymology=== Old English ''[[þrescan]]'' ===Pronunciation=== *: {{rhymes|ɛʃ}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb|thresh|es}} # {{transitive|agriculture}} To [[separate]] the [[grain]] from the [[straw]] or [[husk]]s by mechanical beating, with a [[flail]] or [[machinery]]. # {{transitive|literary}} To beat [[soundly]], usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to [[drub]]. ====Quotations==== * '''2009''': [http://www.hecklerspray.com/author/stuart-heritage Stuart Heritage], ''[http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray]'', Friday the 22^nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About]” *: You know all this <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jordan-peter-andre-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah/200934040.php kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre]</span>, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial '''threshing''' machine as penance? You do? Good. ====Synonyms==== *[[thrash]] ====Translations==== {{trans-top|to beat out grain from}} * Arabic: [[درس]] * Finnish: [[puida]] * Italian: [[trebbiare]] {{trans-mid}} * [[Macedonian]]: {{t|mk|врши|tr=vrši|sc=Cyrl}} * Portuguese: [[malhar]] * Swedish: [[tröska]] {{trans-bottom}} [[de:thresh]] [[fr:thresh]] [[io:thresh]] [[it:thresh]] [[hu:thresh]] [[fi:thresh]] [[ta:thresh]] [[te:thresh]] [[vi:thresh]]