thresh
Example Sentences
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Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.
From Salon
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
Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews.
From Washington Post
The country’s military is rejiggering some of its munitions factories to produce tractors and threshing machines, while also converting some airfields into greenhouses.
From New York Times
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