Thrashing

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thrashing \Thrash"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Thrash}, v.
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     {Thrashing floor}, {Threshing-floor}, or {Threshing floor}, a
        floor or area on which grain is beaten out.


  
     {Thrashing machine}, a machine for separating grain from the
        straw.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE.
     [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan,
     [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G.
     dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska,
     Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to
     rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash,
     OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. {Thresh}.]
     1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the
        straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the
        kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to
        thrash over the old straw.
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              The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
              machines.                             --H. Spencer.
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     2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
        [1913 Webster] Thrash

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thrashing
       n 1: a sound defeat [syn: {walloping}, {debacle}, {drubbing}, {slaughter},
             {trouncing}, {whipping}]
       2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
          blows [syn: {beating}, {licking}, {drubbing}, {lacing}, {trouncing},
           {whacking}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "thrashing":
     Waterloo, assault, bastinado, basting, battering, battery, beating,
     belting, buffeting, caning, castigation, chastisement, clubbing,
     collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding,
     crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat,
     destruction, discipline, disciplining, downfall, drubbing, failure,
     fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hammering,
     hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering,
     licking, mastery, mauling, overcoming, overthrow, overturn,
     pasting, pistol-whipping, pounding, punishment, quietus, rawhiding,
     rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash, spanking, strapping,
     stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching,
     tanning, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment,
     whipping
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  thrashing
       
          {thrash}