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Topic: AGRICULTURE

Language: Old English
Origin: threscan

thresh

 verb
     
thresh [intransitive and transitive]
TA to separate grains of corn, wheat etc from the rest of the plant by beating it with a special tool or machine
—thresher noun [countable]
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