Threshing
[θrɛʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw; 'they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh
Typist: Wesley
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of threshing grain, denotes great advancement in business and happiness among families. But if there is an abundance of straw and little grain, unsuccessful enterprises will be undertaken. To break down or have an accident while threshing, you will have some great sorrow in the midst of prosperity.
Checker: Marie
Examples
- The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Menzies of Scotland, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was the first to invent a threshing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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