Definition of "thresh" [thresh]

• To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw. (verb-transitive)
• To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner. (verb-transitive)
• To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly. (verb-transitive)
• To beat severely; thrash. (verb-transitive)
• To use a machine or flail to separate grain or seeds from straw. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Many plants have heads so large they're easy to harvest or "thresh" once they finish flowering and drying."
• "Extraordinarily rare even among the most accomplished seamstresses, chefs and carpenters are those who spin their own fibers, thresh their own wheat or trim their own lumber—all once common skills."
• "There is a killing power thresh hold beyond which is simply more unnecessry bang,. and under no circumstances I am aware of dose that required power level (IE: bang/killing power) reach that required to blow up guns and people."