Threshing

(noun.) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw; 'they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it'.

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• The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He invented and introduced a horse hoe, a grain drill, and a threshing machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Menzies of Scotland, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was the first to invent a threshing machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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