threshingn.

Brit.

/ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/

Forms: see thresh v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thresh v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < thresh v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare later thrashing n.

1. The action or an act of hitting or beating a person or thing; beating or flogging, esp. as a punishment. Cf. thrashing n. 2. Now rare.In quot. OE in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person

threshingOE

sousingc1580

rib-roast1595

basting1599

swingeing1603

cuffing1610

lamming1611

rib-roasting1613

mauling1621

pinking1637

drubbing1650

diverberation1651

verberation1661

trimming1675

rib1699

thrashing1720

dousing1721

fagging1746

bumping1751

dusting1799

clapperclawing1806

milling1806

hiding1809

punishment1811

doing1814

bethumping1831

mugging1846

jacketing1850

frailing1851

pasting1851

towelling1851

tanning1863

fum-fum1885

ribbing1894

paddywhack1898

tanking1905

beating-up1915

shellacking1931

sloshing1931

clobbering1948

twatting1963

duffing-up1967

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of

threshingOE

fustigation1428

breeching1520

trouncingc1550

bace1575

firking1594

belting1602

knave's grease1602

oil of baston1604

oil of birch1604

oil of hazel1604

oil of holly1604

oil of whip1604

lamb-pie1607

lamming1611

drubbing1650

vapulation1656

warming1681

floggation1688

working over1695

cullis1719

thrashing1720

halberd1756

licking1756

dressing1769

leathering1790

nointing1794

dusting1799

teasing1807

hiding1809

whopping1812

thrumming1823

toco1823

flaking1829

teaser1832

lathering1835

welting1840

pasting1851

towelling1851

whaling1852

hickory oil1855

swishing1859

slating1860

going-over1881

six of the best1912

belt beating1928

ass-kicking1943

stomping1958

seeing to1968

butt-kicking1970

OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 40 Quos iustitia uerberum fæcit afflictos : ða soðfæstnis' ðerscincgra uel suinca' dyde awoerdeno.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxi. 10 Alle grauyn thingis of his goddis ben tobrosid in to þe erþe, with thresshing.

1691 E. Ward Poet's Ramble 15 With painfull threshing, let us see how he could mawl down Popery.

1791 tr. R. M. Lesuire French Adventurer III. 271 Might he not recognize me for him who had given him such a threshing, a few days before?

1880 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Feb. A boy aged eighteen married against the wishes of his parents, and his father, tearing him from the arms of his bride, proceeded to give him a threshing for disobedience.

2009 Right Vision News (Pakistan) (Nexis) 17 Dec. Pedestrians rushed in..and gave him a threshing.

†a. Grain or straw that has been separated by shaking, beating, etc. (see sense 2b). Obsolete. rare.In quot. in figurative context, referring to people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > grain separated from chaff

wheatc825

threshinga1382

sheeling?a1513

shelling1705

sheeling-seeds1802

thrashing1898

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxi. 10 My thressing [L. tritura], and the doȝter of my cornflor.

b. The action or practice of separating the grain of a cereal crop from the husks and straw by any of various methods, such as by shaking, trampling, beating with a flail, or (later) by means of a combine harvester or similar machine.In quot. 1877 in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing

threshingc1384

thrashinga1398

berryinga1642

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea x. 11 Effraym a cow calf, tauȝt for to loue thresshyng [L. trituram].

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. l. 199 Peers..putte hem alle to werke..In þresshynge, in þecchynge, in thwytynge of pynnes.

1649 W. Bullock Virginia impartially Examined iv. 38 For the threshing of the Corne I allow ten weekes.

1735 Country Jrnl. or Craftsman 25 Oct. A Machine invented by him for the threshing of Grain.

1877 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 378 In Grace, as in farming, there is a time for threshing.

2004 Economist 13 Mar. 64/3 The extra workers are needed because there is virtually no power for threshing and harvesting and no diesel for farm vehicles.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2b), as in threshing barn, threshing flail, etc.See also threshing floor n., threshing machine n., threshing mill n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail

threshelOE

flaila1100

flagel1647

threshing flail1686

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > threshing field or floor

bartonc950

summer fieldc1384

thrashing floora1398

corn-floora1425

summer halla1425

threshing floora1450

summer floor1535

threshing barn1812

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. l. 10 (MED) They comen to þe þreschyng feeld of Adad.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Amos i. 3 Thei haue threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of yron.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. xli. 15 I have made thee as a new threshing wayne [L. plaustrum triturans], having teeth like a saw.

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 106/2 Provide a Stick..about the bigness of a Threshing-Flail.

1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 15 The threshing-barn..must be sufficiently spacious to contain one stack of grain in the straw.

2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vii. 220 Llanerchaeron was a self-sufficient estate, which is evident in the dairy, laundry, brewery and salting room as well as the home farm buildings from the stables to the threshing barn.

C2.

threshing sled n. now chiefly historical a sledge-like wooden implement having a flat surface set with small pieces of iron or sharp stone, used (esp. in North Africa and the Middle East) for crushing and separating grain; = threshing sledge n.Cf. slightly earlier thrashing-sled in quot. 1875 (cf. thrashing n. 1a).

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1068/1 The thrashing-sled of the Egyptians and Syrians, the tribulum of the Romans, may have been used for dragging over the ground to cover seed, but it does not so appear.]

1876 Friends' Intelligencer 2 Sept. 443/1 The sheaves are laid down in proper position, and an ox harnessed to the threshing sled.

1966 Iran 4 30 The only bovines seen by me were two oxen driving a threshing sled.

2012 W. G. Dever Lives Ordinary People in Anc. Israel vi. 173 Since these tools—plows, hoes, rakes, threshing sleds, and the like—were made mostly of wood, they have not survived the ravages of time.

threshing sledge n. now chiefly historical a sledge-like wooden implement having a flat surface set with small pieces of iron or sharp stone, used (esp. in North Africa and the Middle East) for crushing and separating grain; cf. threshing sled n.

ΚΠ

1792 J. Parkhurst Hebrew & Eng. Lexicon (ed. 3) 643/1 It denotes the stone- or iron-teeth of a tribula or threshing sledge.

1884 Science Apr. 470/1 We are not surprised to see this old threshing-sledge in use in northern Africa. Indeed, it is one of the delightful cases of survival that so often spring upon us.

1965 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. ii. 199 Chinese agricultural books generally depict the use of the flail rather than the threshing-sledge of occidental antiquity.

2012 W. G. Dever Lives of Ordinary People in Anc. Israel vi. 175 (caption) A threshing sledge, showing the embedded stones that crush the grain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

threshingadj.

Brit.

/ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thresh v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < thresh v. + -ing suffix². Compare later thrashing adj.

1. That threshes (in various senses of thresh v.).

ΚΠ

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. C3 Base heardgroome, coward, peasant, worse than a threshing slaue.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 71 He observes, That the Worm Jacob was a threshing Worm [cf. Isa. xli. 14, 15].

1818 J. Dunlavy Manifesto xii. 204 God, say they, is able to vindicate himself; and thus represent him as a threshing tyrant who carries all before him by arbitrary power.

1899 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea vi. 38 Scourged by the merciless blast, battered by the threshing sails, they strove for dear life through two terrible hours of that stern night.

1949 ‘E. Queen’ Case-bk. (1950) I. 276 Ellery was on the floor in a tangle of threshing arms and legs.

2005 Farmer's Weekly 21 Jan. 70/4 I catered for farmers who gathered sheep from the mountain, shearers and threshing men.

†2. colloquial. Of an impressive size; great; big. Cf. thumping adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great

swappingc1440

bumping1566

thumping1576

swingeinga1592

knocking1598

gigantical1604

gigantine1605

gigantean1611

gigantal?1614

thundering1618

whoppinga1625

humming1654

rapping1657

whisking1673

threshing1707

sousing1735

nation1765

heroic1785

runaway1790

spanking1791

gigantic1797

whacking1797

cracking1834

ringing1834

bouncing1842

walloping1847

stavingc1850

banging1864

howling1865

whooping1866

smacking1888

God almighty1913

Christ almighty1961

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 30 In one Twelve-month he comes to be an able, roaring, threshing Fellow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	threshing
释义	threshingn. Brit. /ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/ Forms: see thresh v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thresh v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < thresh v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare later thrashing n. 1. The action or an act of hitting or beating a person or thing; beating or flogging, esp. as a punishment. Cf. thrashing n. 2. Now rare.In quot. OE in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of threshingOE fustigation1428 breeching1520 trouncingc1550 bace1575 firking1594 belting1602 knave's grease1602 oil of baston1604 oil of birch1604 oil of hazel1604 oil of holly1604 oil of whip1604 lamb-pie1607 lamming1611 drubbing1650 vapulation1656 warming1681 floggation1688 working over1695 cullis1719 thrashing1720 halberd1756 licking1756 dressing1769 leathering1790 nointing1794 dusting1799 teasing1807 hiding1809 whopping1812 thrumming1823 toco1823 flaking1829 teaser1832 lathering1835 welting1840 pasting1851 towelling1851 whaling1852 hickory oil1855 swishing1859 slating1860 going-over1881 six of the best1912 belt beating1928 ass-kicking1943 stomping1958 seeing to1968 butt-kicking1970 OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 40 Quos iustitia uerberum fæcit afflictos : ða soðfæstnis' ðerscincgra uel suinca' dyde awoerdeno. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxi. 10 Alle grauyn thingis of his goddis ben tobrosid in to þe erþe, with thresshing. 1691 E. Ward Poet's Ramble 15 With painfull threshing, let us see how he could mawl down Popery. 1791 tr. R. M. Lesuire French Adventurer III. 271 Might he not recognize me for him who had given him such a threshing, a few days before? 1880 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Feb. A boy aged eighteen married against the wishes of his parents, and his father, tearing him from the arms of his bride, proceeded to give him a threshing for disobedience. 2009 Right Vision News (Pakistan) (Nexis) 17 Dec. Pedestrians rushed in..and gave him a threshing. 2. †a. Grain or straw that has been separated by shaking, beating, etc. (see sense 2b). Obsolete. rare.In quot. in figurative context, referring to people. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > grain separated from chaff wheatc825 threshinga1382 sheeling?a1513 shelling1705 sheeling-seeds1802 thrashing1898 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxi. 10 My thressing [L. tritura], and the doȝter of my cornflor. b. The action or practice of separating the grain of a cereal crop from the husks and straw by any of various methods, such as by shaking, trampling, beating with a flail, or (later) by means of a combine harvester or similar machine.In quot. 1877 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing threshingc1384 thrashinga1398 berryinga1642 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea x. 11 Effraym a cow calf, tauȝt for to loue thresshyng [L. trituram]. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. l. 199 Peers..putte hem alle to werke..In þresshynge, in þecchynge, in thwytynge of pynnes. 1649 W. Bullock Virginia impartially Examined iv. 38 For the threshing of the Corne I allow ten weekes. 1735 Country Jrnl. or Craftsman 25 Oct. A Machine invented by him for the threshing of Grain. 1877 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 378 In Grace, as in farming, there is a time for threshing. 2004 Economist 13 Mar. 64/3 The extra workers are needed because there is virtually no power for threshing and harvesting and no diesel for farm vehicles. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2b), as in threshing barn, threshing flail, etc.See also threshing floor n., threshing machine n., threshing mill n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > flail threshelOE flaila1100 flagel1647 threshing flail1686 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > threshing field or floor bartonc950 summer fieldc1384 thrashing floora1398 corn-floora1425 summer halla1425 threshing floora1450 summer floor1535 threshing barn1812 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. l. 10 (MED) They comen to þe þreschyng feeld of Adad. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Amos i. 3 Thei haue threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of yron. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. xli. 15 I have made thee as a new threshing wayne [L. plaustrum triturans], having teeth like a saw. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 106/2 Provide a Stick..about the bigness of a Threshing-Flail. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 15 The threshing-barn..must be sufficiently spacious to contain one stack of grain in the straw. 2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vii. 220 Llanerchaeron was a self-sufficient estate, which is evident in the dairy, laundry, brewery and salting room as well as the home farm buildings from the stables to the threshing barn. C2. threshing sled n. now chiefly historical a sledge-like wooden implement having a flat surface set with small pieces of iron or sharp stone, used (esp. in North Africa and the Middle East) for crushing and separating grain; = threshing sledge n.Cf. slightly earlier thrashing-sled in quot. 1875 (cf. thrashing n. 1a). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1068/1 The thrashing-sled of the Egyptians and Syrians, the tribulum of the Romans, may have been used for dragging over the ground to cover seed, but it does not so appear.] 1876 Friends' Intelligencer 2 Sept. 443/1 The sheaves are laid down in proper position, and an ox harnessed to the threshing sled. 1966 Iran 4 30 The only bovines seen by me were two oxen driving a threshing sled. 2012 W. G. Dever Lives Ordinary People in Anc. Israel vi. 173 Since these tools—plows, hoes, rakes, threshing sleds, and the like—were made mostly of wood, they have not survived the ravages of time. threshing sledge n. now chiefly historical a sledge-like wooden implement having a flat surface set with small pieces of iron or sharp stone, used (esp. in North Africa and the Middle East) for crushing and separating grain; cf. threshing sled n. ΚΠ 1792 J. Parkhurst Hebrew & Eng. Lexicon (ed. 3) 643/1 It denotes the stone- or iron-teeth of a tribula or threshing sledge. 1884 Science Apr. 470/1 We are not surprised to see this old threshing-sledge in use in northern Africa. Indeed, it is one of the delightful cases of survival that so often spring upon us. 1965 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. ii. 199 Chinese agricultural books generally depict the use of the flail rather than the threshing-sledge of occidental antiquity. 2012 W. G. Dever Lives of Ordinary People in Anc. Israel vi. 175 (caption) A threshing sledge, showing the embedded stones that crush the grain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). threshingadj. Brit. /ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈθrɛʃɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thresh v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < thresh v. + -ing suffix². Compare later thrashing adj. 1. That threshes (in various senses of thresh v.). ΚΠ 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. C3 Base heardgroome, coward, peasant, worse than a threshing slaue. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 71 He observes, That the Worm Jacob was a threshing Worm [cf. Isa. xli. 14, 15]. 1818 J. Dunlavy Manifesto xii. 204 God, say they, is able to vindicate himself; and thus represent him as a threshing tyrant who carries all before him by arbitrary power. 1899 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea vi. 38 Scourged by the merciless blast, battered by the threshing sails, they strove for dear life through two terrible hours of that stern night. 1949 ‘E. Queen’ Case-bk. (1950) I. 276 Ellery was on the floor in a tangle of threshing arms and legs. 2005 Farmer's Weekly 21 Jan. 70/4 I catered for farmers who gathered sheep from the mountain, shearers and threshing men. †2. colloquial. Of an impressive size; great; big. Cf. thumping adj. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 30 In one Twelve-month he comes to be an able, roaring, threshing Fellow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.OEadj.1591
随便看	to stud to study by oneself to study in oneself to study the history of the four kings to study up to stuff a chase to stuff one's face to stuff out to stuff up to stum up to stumble at on the threshold to stumble at the threshold to stump it to stump up to sub the purple to subject someone's neck to the yoke to subject someone's neck unto the yoke to subjection to submit one's fasces to submit the fasces to submit to the yoke to subscribe with a name to subscribe with a names to subscribe with one's hand to subscribe with one's own hand