transitive. To separate the grain of (a cereal crop) from the husks and straw by any of various methods, such as by shaking, trampling, beating…

transitive. To thresh (corn) by trampling it on a threshing-floor: said of the oxen, etc. or of one using them; also with out.

To thresh. Obsolete exc. dialect ‘to beat or break the awns from barley, etc., to thresh flax’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).

To thresh (corn, etc.). See berried, adj.1

transitive. To remove (chaff) from grain, in the process of threshing or winnowing. Obsolete.

transitive. To separate the grain of (a cereal crop) from the husks and straw by any of various methods, such as by shaking, trampling, beating…

To thresh (corn).

Agriculture. To beat with a flail; also to rake (hay).

To thresh or beat out (seed). Also intransitive said of the seed. Cf. cob, n.1 10.

To thresh (corn) with a flail.

To strike the grain from (ears of corn). Cf. scutcher, n.2 2.

To deprive (a plant of its foliage or fruit); to remove (seed or grain from the straw).