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threshing

noun

  1. process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.

  1. The process by which something is threshed.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of thresh