Thresh
121sift — Synonyms and related words: air, analyze, appraise, assess, assort, bolt, canvass, catalog, categorize, choose, choose out, clarify, class, classify, clear, collate, comb, comment upon, consider, contradistinguish, controvert, cordon, cordon off …
122wheat — n. 1) to grow; harvest wheat 2) to grind; thresh wheat (to grind wheat into flour) 3) summer; winter wheat 4) club; common; drum; hybrid wheat 5) cracked; whole wheat USAGE NOTE: AE has whole wheat bread, whole wheat flour; BE has whole meal… …
123flail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. thrash, flog (see punishment). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. thrash, beat, swing; see beat 2 , swing 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. strike, thrash, flog. see beat IV (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb …
124Inquiry — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Subject of Inquiry. Question. < N PARAG:Inquiry >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inquiry inquiry Sgm: N 1 request request &c. 765 Sgm: N 1 search search research quest pursuit &c. 622 GRP: N 2 …
125Punishment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Punishment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 punishment punishment punition Sgm: N 1 chastisement chastisement chastening Sgm: N 1 correction correction castigation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 discipline discipline …
126thriskan — [akin to Eng thresh] : thresh. Deriv. thrask (*) threshing floor. Comp. gathrask threshing floor …
127thrash — 1580s, to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating, dialectal variant of threshen (see THRESH (Cf. thresh)). Sense of beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail is first recorded c.1600. Meaning to make wild movements like those of a flail… …
128thresher — late 14c., agent noun from THRESH (Cf. thresh). The thresher shark (c.1600) so called for its long upper tail shape, which resembles a threshing tool …
