THRESHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threshing mean? 

• THRESHING (noun)
  The noun THRESHING has 1 sense:

1. the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw

  Familiarity information: THRESHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRESHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

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

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

separation (sorting one thing from others)

Derivation:

thresh (beat the seeds out of a grain)

 Context examples 

Systemic and pulmonary reactions resulting from inhalation of dust from moldy hay, threshing dust, or moldy straw, by persons who have become hypersensitive to antigens in the dust.

(Farmer's Lung, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manœuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)