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Thresh vs Swipple - What's the difference?

thresh | swipple |

As a verb thresh

is (agriculture) to separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.

As a noun swipple is

the part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.

thresh

English

Verb

(es)
  • (agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
  • (literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

    • Quotations

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    Synonyms

    * thrash

    Derived terms

    * thresher * thresherman * threshold

    swipple

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swipel * swiple

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.

    • Synonyms

    * swingel