THRESHING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw

Example:

they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("threshing" is a kind of...):

separation (sorting one thing from others)

Derivation:

thresh (beat the seeds out of a grain)

-ing form of the verb thresh