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threshing

/thresh/US // θrɛʃ //UK // (θrɛʃ) //

打谷,打谷场,脱粒,打谷机

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to separate the grain or seeds from by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
    • : to beat as if with a flail.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to thresh wheat, grain, etc.
    • : to deliver blows as if with a flail.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of threshing.
  1. 1
    • : thresh out / over thrash.

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Examples

  • Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.

  • And when they came unto the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the Ark; for the oxen stumbled.

  • The cause of it was that the French owner had brought a threshing machine and was threshing out his wheat.

  • Over the good things at our corner table we did a little threshing on our own account—and got a lot more chaff and no grain.

  • There was no decent shelter to be found and so I gladly set up my bed on the threshing floor, and slept under the starry sky.