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threshing machine

noun

, Agriculture.
  1. a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.


threshing machine

noun

  1. 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.

Mr. Grile hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine.

The threshing-machine passed, waving its wings, and his dead children sat with him through the night.

Each manufacturer sent his best piano, plough, threshing-machine, or sewing-machine.

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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