thresh

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
H'm. What's oar-thresh, Charlie The water washed up by the oars.

View all »
Definitions (13)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (6)

  1. transitive verb To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
  2. transitive verb To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
  3. transitive verb To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • They stood there upon the thresh-hold, listening, and heard Joseph tell his tale, and when he had said, ‘You know all this,’ they heard Miss Olivia answer him. —  The Benevent Treasure - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 26: 1953
  • On the nuclear threat faced by the region, Kapoor said: "The presence of nuclear weapons in our neighbourhood, underlines the fact that any conventional war can at any time turn in to a nuclear war, provided a certain thresh-hold is crossed by either side." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The accusers doubtless had in mind the rabbinical dictum that rubbing out an ear of grain in the hands was a species of threshing; that blowing away the chaff was winnowing; and that it was unlawful to thresh or winnow on the Sabbath. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • The Bible says, "Seven days unto the Lord"; therefore we should in all our merriment devote a few serious thoughts to Him The Feast of Tabernacles is held in the autumn, after the fruits of the field have been garnered in the storehouses, according to the words of the Bible, "The Feast of Tabernacles shalt thou hold for thyself seven days when thou hast gathered in the produce of thy thresh-floor and thy wine-press This dwelling in booths is also to bring to mind the manner in which the Israelites lived for forty years after they left Egypt. —  Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
  • Go! Your father has sent for you: go this moment I mechanically followed my aunt, without in the least understanding what it was all about, and as I crossed the thresh-hold I saw my father with his hair on end walking up and down the room with long strides. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
 

Tags

thresh hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 84 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

tattler ·  thrash ·  winnow ·  sow ·  husking

Used in the same contextWord Family

thresh:   threshing ·  threshed
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English thresshen, from Old English therscan; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/θræʃ, θrɛʃ/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

mexican · quasi-religious · useful · intellectuals · goalpost

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich