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What does thresh mean?

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  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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As a result of the more even crop flow, less power is needed to thresh the crop.
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.
The higher the cutter bar is set the less straw is processed by the combine and therefore its capacity to thresh is increased.
As the Twin Rotor? system allows plenty of time to thresh and separate the grain, the crop treatment is gentle.
All his optimism failed to thresh a grain of hope from the chaff of his postulations.
But he liked a listener and he loved to thresh out every question immediately and to put down the contradictor.

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