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THRESHING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("threshing" is a kind of...):

separation (sorting one thing from others)

Derivation:

thresh (beat the seeds out of a grain)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb thresh

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