Thresh



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 打谷, 脱粒
• ［英］ v. 打谷, 脱粒 ( beat cereal plants with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw)

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: Middle English thresshen, from Old English threscan; akin to Old High German dreskan to thresh
• Date: before 12th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically; also to separate (seed) in this way
  • 2. thrash 4
  • 3. to strike repeatedly
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to thresh grain
  • 2.
    • a. thrash 2
    • b. thrash 3

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