5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Thrashing \Thrash"ing\, a. & n. from {Thrash}, v. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] 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}
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