(v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.
Example Sentences:
(1) In late July and early August 1990, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among persons who had eaten a meal while attending an agricultural threshing show in North Dakota on July 28-29.
(2) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
(3) I don’t think I can continue with something that is no longer moving forward.” If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines.
(4) Farmer's lung, caused by the inhalation of microspores--particularly of the genus, Thermoactinomyces--has been recognised for the past 30-40 years as a condition affecting adult farm workers, especially up to the mid-sixties when undried crops were still threshed indoors.
(5) 50 patients acquired the infection during common farming activities, such as making fresh hay with a hay-cutter, handling dry hay, threshing, etc.
(6) The following substances were found to play a causal role in the development of asthma in exposed persons: penicillin dust, dust inhaled during the threshing of grain, persulfate, formalin, inorganic cooling agents.
(7) At the onset of sweating, the tympanic threshold temperature (Tty,thresh) was higher in the L phase [37.18 (SEM 0.08) degrees C] than in the F phase [36.95 (SEM 0.07) degrees C; P less than 0.01].
(8) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
(9) Three neat rows of long grass in his garden are purple free-threshing spelt, grown from the "one handful of the seed in the world".
(10) A 5% level of significance was statistically recognized in the thresh old at 35 min after light adaptation between the stages IIIa and IIIb of retinopathy.
(11) Heydi had fallen in a rice-threshing machine as a baby and suffered permanent brain damage.
(12) The magnitude of the shift in Tty,thresh [0.23 (SEM 0.07) degrees C] was similar to the L-F difference in Tty observed at the end of the N exposure.
(13) The chef spent several hours studying Forbes's Heath Robinson set-up – including a threshing machine made out of BMX bike rims, scooter wheels, a Chinese sewing machine, and a rubber mat used for wiping shoes outside hospitals – and announced he would buy as much bread as Forbes was willing to sell.
(14) There are small businesses that provide a mobile threshing service, reducing post-harvest losses to less than 20%.