noun
Meaning 1
The process by which something is threshed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
threshing
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verb
Meaning 2
present participle and gerund of thresh
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 3
the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it
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Broader terms: separation
History
Etymology
From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دِيَاسَة (diyāsa) — process
- Bulgarian: вършитба (vǎršitba) — process
- Dutch: dors — process
- Esperanto: draŝado — process
- Finnish: puinti — process
- French: dépiquage — process
- Galician: maza — process
- Galician: malla — process
- Greek: αλώνισμα (alónisma) — process
- Italian: trebbiatura — process
- Pannonian Rusyn: тлачидба (tlačidba) — process
- Russian: молотьба́ (molotʹbá) — process
- Russian: обмоло́т (obmolót) — process
- Turkish: harman — process
- Ottoman Turkish: خرمان (harman) — process
- Ukrainian: молотьба (molotʹba) — process
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