Definitions for threshes

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threshes thresh

Spelling: [thresh]

IPA: /θrɛʃ/

Threshes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in threshes (eehhrsst).

Definitions for threshes

noun

1. the act of threshing.

Verb phrases

1. thresh out/over. thrash (def 12).

verb (used with object)

1. 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.
2. to beat as if with a flail.

verb (used without object)

1. to thresh wheat, grain, etc.
2. to deliver blows as if with a flail.

Origin of threshes

before 900; Middle English threschen, thresshen, Old English threscan; cognate with German dreschen, Gothic thriskan; akin to Dutch dorsen, Old Norse thriskja

Examples for threshes

He fell with a great roar, and began to thresh about in the bushes.

He has sown, but he has also to reap; and if reaping is done, he has to thresh and to winnow.

The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain.

Some of them thresh, clean, and sack the wheat as fast as it is cut and bound.

All his optimism failed to thresh a grain of hope from the chaff of his postulations.

But fortunately he came up on the surface to thresh about some more.

The two of you will have to thresh it out between yourselves.

Overhead could be distinctly heard the thresh of the vessel's propellers.

His wheel is not to grind, but to thresh; the horses' feet are not to break, but to separate.

Be sensible; stack what you can, but don't wait to thresh or grind.