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.

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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

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