Word Meanings - THRESH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Straw-cutter
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• STRAWCOLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• STRAWCUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• Strawworm
  A caddice worm.
• THRASHERTHRESHER
  A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox,
• WHEATRUST
  A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.
• Thrashed
  of Thresh
• WHEATSELBIRD
  The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
• Thrashing
  of Thresh
• WHEATSTONESBRIDGE
  See under Bridge.
• Graining.
  of Grain
• WHEATSTONESRODS
  Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised b

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