Thresh

(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.

艾格尼丝编辑

• We thresh fascists today,' said one, 'and out of the chaff comes the freedom of this pueblo. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Menzies of Scotland, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was the first to invent a threshing machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The wheat is headed, threshed, cleaned and sacked by this machine in one continuous operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We have harvested but we have not threshed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The machine in the lower view is self-propelling, cuts and threshes the grain, throwing out the straw, and places the grain in sacks ready for loading on the wagon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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