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Thrashing   /θrˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Thresh, Thrash  v. t.  (past & past part. thrashed; pres. part. thrashing)  
1.
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. "The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines."
2.
To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.


noun
Thrashing  n.  A. & n. from Thrash, v.
Thrashing floor, Thrashing-floor, or Thrashing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out.
Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.





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"Thrashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Leisure, certainly, but the means are slender enough, and proceeding in a diminishing ratio. That's the penalty of having been born a rich man's son and educated chiefly in the arts of riding off at polo and thrashing a single-sticker to windward in a Cape Cod squall. But I sha'n't say a word against the governor, God bless him! He gave me what I thought I wanted, and it wasn't his fault that an insignificant blood-clot should beat him out on that day of days—the corner in "R. P." It was never the Chicago ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... lucubrations of that fellow to the clear grasp of my intellect?" he thought. "Is not this my country? Have I not got forty million brothers?" he asked himself, unanswerably victorious in the silence of his breast. And the fearful thrashing he had given the inanimate Ziemianitch seemed to him a sign of intimate union, a pathetically severe necessity of brotherly love. "No! If I must suffer let me at least suffer for my convictions, not for a crime my ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... pardon," Tom said gravely; "I did not know that the 15th were famous for thrashing boys. Thank you; when I enlist it shall be in a regiment where men ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... naturally to a thrashing, as others do the small-pox. In a few minutes I perceived him emerge from the ditch and walk—though rather stiffly—across the field. "Thank Heaven," I said, "if I have been a dupe ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included. BOOK II. ( Octavo), CHAPTER V. ( Thrasher). —This gentleman is famous for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He mounts the Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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