thresh

I didn’t know that, on a nineteenth-century farm, one might see horses “walking on treadmills that ran machines to compress hay into bundles and to thresh wheat.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016

Everywhere we went, we stopped to help women pick chiles or men thresh rice.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2015

Q: Does he thresh things out with you?

From US News ● Jun. 5, 2015

Winter brought the people indoors to weave yarn into fabric, sew clothing, thresh grain, and keep the fires going.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2018

Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 18, 2017

Reality TV is shiny, loopy, and fun, and it retains some of these qualities even when it is being excoriated as a hideous machine that threshes smart and decent people in its maw.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2015

He becomes disgusted with their lack of appreciation, seeks seclusion and formulates the desired addition and threshes the grain ready for the bag.

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)

Ukraine sowed a total of 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat for its 2022 crop, but only 5 million hectares could be threshed by farmers on government-controlled territory.

From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022

He was aw-shucks Chuck, and he threshed most of his challengers with ease, often with ads that showed him tugging two mowers across his farm yard in stereo.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021

One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014

Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

A short walk away, a threshing machine spews clouds of dust and chaff as wheat pours out in a steady stream, rattling into worn brown sacks at farmers' feet.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

Farmers have already completed the 2023 wheat harvest, threshing 21.94 million metric tons.

From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023

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 ● Aug. 13, 2023

He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck