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.
threshes
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present tense formof thresh (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2018
Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 18, 2017
Reality TV is shiny, loopy, and fun, and it retains some of these qualities even when it is being excoriated as a hideous machine that threshes smart and decent people in its maw.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2015
In Canton Schaffhausen the man who threshes the last corn is called the Cow; in Canton Thurgau, the Corn-bull; in Canton Zurich, the Thresher-cow.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
