thresh
verb (used with object)
to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
is threshing
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present progressiveof thresh (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Doubtlessly Morvan is threshing the grain that he has harvested.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue
He is threshing wheat by the wine-press, to hide it from the hosts of Midian, which devoured the produce of the entire country.
From John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Another, worked by the crew that manned it in Egyptian days, is threshing up the Blue Nile, sent by the Khalifa to Sennar on some errand of State.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
"And now, as the result of it, that machine is threshing out I don't know how many thousand bushels of splendid wheat."
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
