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threshing

noun as in act of removing grain or seeds from hulls or husks

noun as in beating

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

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The Taklamakan Desert was a vast floor of threshing dust.

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.

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.

Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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