The water was Thrashed.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Still the men went in, floundering knee-deep in the flood, along the submerged pile of stone and clutching at the piles that bound it to save themselves when the stream threatened to sweep their feet from under them, until they came to the gap where the great tree, rolling in the grip of the torrent, Thrashed its grinding branches against the stone.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The trouble is that I may not get much for it, and a wheat crop is never quite safe until it's Thrashed out.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss