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▪ I. thrashing, threshing, vbl. n.|ˈθræʃɪŋ, ˈθrɛʃɪŋ|
[f. thrash, thresh v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb thrash or thresh in various senses. (For the status of the spellings, see the vb.)
I.
1. Beating with or as with a flail; esp. the separation of grain from the straw by beating or otherwise.
1382Wyclif Hos. x. 11 Effraym a cow calf, tauȝt for to loue thresshyng. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 199 In þresshynge, in þecchynge, in thwytynge of pynnes. 1601Holland Pliny xviii. xxx. I. 602 The good redbearded wheat Far..commeth hardly out of the huske, and asketh some painefull thrashing. 1877Talmage Serm. 378 In Grace, as in farming, there is a time for threshing. 1898Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 2/1 No break or variety in the low, dark clouds, or the steady threshing of the rain.
b. That which is threshed; the grain obtained by threshing.
1382Wyclif Isa. xxi. 10 My thressing, and the doȝter of my cornflor. 1898Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 2/1 The British farmer who has not yet sold last year's thrashing will thus reap the benefit of the higher prices.
II.
2. Beating or flogging, esp. by way of punishment; an instance of this. (Regularly thrashing.)
1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 111 The benefit of the instructions and thrashings of..the parish schoolmaster. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 53 Gifts of that kind..are viewed in the light of schoolboy indulgences after a severe thrashing. 1875A. R. Hope Schoolboy Friends 80 I'll give you the greatest thrashing you ever had.
b. A defeat in battle or in any contest.
1815Ld. Apsley in Stocqueler Wellington (1853) II. App. 340, I think the French will get such a thrashing as they have seldom had. 1885L'pool Daily Post 1 June 5/4 The county suffered a ‘one innings’ thrashing [at cricket] at the hands of their antagonists.
3. transf.: see senses 7 and 8 of the verb.
1886R. C. Leslie Sea Painter's Log 115 Much thrashing to and fro in the chops of the Channel. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 50/1, I knew from the thrashing going on..that the game was mine.
4. attrib. and Comb., as thrashing- or threshing-barn, thrashing-flail, etc.
1382Wyclif Gen. l. 10 Thei camen to the thresshyng feelde of Adad. 1560Bible (Genev.) Amos i. 3 Thei haue threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of yron. 1609Bible (Douay) Isa. xli. 15, I have made thee as a new threshing wayne, having teeth like a saw. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 15 The threshing-barn..must be sufficiently spacious to contain one stack of grain in the straw. Ibid. 72 The threshing-mill has generally one set of fanners attached to it, driven by a belt from the end of the axle of the threshing drum. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 267 No corn should be presented until the mill has acquired its proper momentum, the thrashing-motion, as it is termed. 1865A. Cary Ball. & Lyrics 140 The..farmer-boy Who cut my name upon his thrashing-flail. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2557/1 Rollers which carry the grain in the straw from the feed-board to the thrashing cylinder.
▪ II. ˈthrashing, ˈthreshing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That thrashes or threshes; esp. that threshes corn, etc. In quot. 1706 in sense ‘great’, ‘big’: cf. thumping ppl. a.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 28 Base heardgroom, coward, peasant, worse than a threshing slaue. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 71 He observes, that the worm Jacob was a threshing worm [cf. Isa. xli. 14, 15]. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 30 In one Twelve-Month he comes to be an able, roaring, threshing Fellow. 1887G. Meredith Ballads & P. 74 Chosen warriors, keen and hard; Grains of threshing battle-dints. |
