Ecological Transitions

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noun A floor covering, typically made of straw or other plant material, used to separate grain from the plant during threshing

verb To separate grain from (a plant) by beating or crushing

  • The farmer used a machine to thresh the wheat and separate the grain from the chaff.
  • I watched my grandpa thresh the rice in the backyard using a traditional method.
  • We need to thresh through all these emails to find the important ones.
  • The team had to thresh through a lot of data to uncover the truth behind the scandal.