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I left word with the maid that we were on no account to be disturbed and we sat down to thresh the whole thing out.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

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

They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

How the old churl whistles and threshes the snow!

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Even with a decline of that magnitude, that would still leave about 20 million tonnes needing to be threshed and transported from July.

From Reuters ● May 25, 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

The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

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

His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up.

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

The Case Special came through every August with flatcars of the latest in steam engines and threshing machines.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck