thresh

We saw a pair of finger blades that Eristavi had used to thresh grain.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

This Sunday and next also offer the museum’s Matzo Factory, at 1, 1:45 and 2:30 p.m., in which children can thresh and grind wheat and bake their own matzos to take home for Passover.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2016

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

In a few weeks’ time, my neighbors will come to help thresh my grain.

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

The soldier who threshes wildly about the field, however fiercely and courageously, is not the one to contribute to the victory.

From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Shirley C. Hughson

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

Embodying ambient sensations — clopping horse hooves, rhythmic hammer swings, pungent scents of freshly threshed grain — Mr. Skogsbergh’s vivid photographs, like flies on a wall, likewise bear witness to storied lives.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten.

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

At last Charlie seemed to stir at the salary of seventeen dollars a week for the threshing season, and keep.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck