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What does thresh mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
  2. (literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
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The higher the cutter bar is set the less straw is processed by the combine and therefore its capacity to thresh is increased.
But he liked a listener and he loved to thresh out every question immediately and to put down the contradictor.
Ravi: But I am confused father... Peter's family did not thresh their rice as soon as it was harvested.
More recently, Sasakawa has been supporting the development of multi-crop machines to thresh tef in Ethiopia.
As in any year, the combine should be properly set to gather, thresh, and separate all the beans from the plants to minimize losses and damage.
That's why a single combine operator can now thresh more grain in an hour than a 30-man crew in the 1920s could in a day.

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