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flail
thrash
To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery
To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub
When a cereal such as corn, wheat, or rice is threshed, it is beaten in order to separate the grains from the rest of the plant. The corn was still sown, cut and threshed as it was a hundred years ago. to separate grains of corn, wheat etc from the rest of the plant by beating it with a special tool or machine
To separate the grain or seed from (wheat, etc)
Same as Thrash
Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently
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beat the seeds out of a grain
give a thrashing to; beat hard
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw
To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well
To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub
short for threshold
{f} thrash, beat out grain from husks
move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
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