threshing

Speech parts

1. threshing - Noun

2. threshing - Verb

Meaning

of Thresh

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thrashing thresh production culture operating division agronomy growing agriculture farming breeding feeding cultivation beating grazing

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Antonyms

guard still cover protect screen secure

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Hypernyms

separation

Phrases with the word

free-threshing wheat threshing barn

Examples

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Christian Nestell Bovee

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. Fanny Kemble

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. Clyde Tombaugh

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. Clyde Tombaugh

Furrows are pleasant to a threshing ox. Sumerian Proverb

they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

thresher whale thresher's lung thresherman threshing barn threshing board threshing floor