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threshing machine
noun
, Agriculture.
- a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
threshing machine
noun
- a machine for threshing crops
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Word History and Origins
Origin of threshing machine1
First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences
The cause of it was that the French owner had brought a threshing machine and was threshing out his wheat.
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Mr. Grile hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine.
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The threshing-machine passed, waving its wings, and his dead children sat with him through the night.
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Each manufacturer sent his best piano, plough, threshing-machine, or sewing-machine.
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The right and left sides of a threshing machine are reckoned from the position of the feeder as he stands facing the machine.
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