thresh out


verb
  1. another term for thrash out

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How to use thresh out in a sentence

  • The farmer caught up a huge flail with which he was wont to thresh out his oats.

    Hunted and Harried | R.M. Ballantyne
  • "I want to thresh out some things with you to-day, and I'll be as brief as possible," said Bassett when he and Harwood were alone.

    A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
  • There were so many lives and works that we were going to thresh out together—Francis Thompson's, for one.

  • thresh out the straw for your food, and the grain for your masters.

    The Treasury of Ancient Egypt | Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
  • Now the large machines separate, or thresh out, between three and four thousand bushels in one day.