thresh
Example Sentences
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Plus, no one family could afford all of the different equipment—the plows, the threshing machines, the corn shellers, and so on—that they needed to farm all their land.
From Literature
Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.
From Salon
The Taklamakan Desert was a vast floor of threshing dust.
From Literature
It takes a village, not a threshing machine, to complete the harvest of pounds of watermelon seeds that will fill the simple, white packets sold by Turtle Tree Seed.
From New York Times
She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
