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

Then, we came and gathered up what remained of the paddy and took it away to thresh and winnow.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

Consequently, she tears and threshes the water to pieces, and piles it under her nose and cannot put it under her cleanly.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

It was an uncommon moment for Mr. King, the firebrand who for the last decade has threshed his opponents like corn through a combine.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012

The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn’t see it.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

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

But he had caught the patent fever, and year after year the money made by threshing and by smithing was drained off in patents.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck