Read full poem →“] urge the moralists to thresh
(Indeed the thing is very droll)
Dictionary Entry
To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
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Common Phrases
. threshgrain threshwheat thresh
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Poetry examples for “thresh”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When I was bardless, young, and blate,
An’ first could thresh the barn,
Or haud a yokin’ at the pleugh;
Read full poem →When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh, and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,