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Meanings of threshing in English
Usage of threshing in English
1
We heard the buzzing noise of the threshing-machine in the adjoining fields.
2
The water seethed with the threshing of the animals beneath the sea.
3
We pitched on the threshing floor between the village and the castle.
4
This threshing out of the chaff gives the State a certain dignity.
5
What is left after these for the threshing floor the thief takes.
6
Pack yourself off to the barn and go on with your threshing.
7
Then there was threshing, and the sowing of winter wheat and rye.
8
There, in one corner of the threshing-floor, stood August, gazing at her.
9
From there we went to a field where they were threshing wheat.
10
Or again, the oxen, while threshing, would be addressed with the refrain:
11
Worked as a hired hand till he got his threshing machine built.
12
The railroad gang, bonanza barons, and banking clique, sweep the threshing floor.
13
Evidently they had been planted along the trench of a threshing ground.
14
The men were driven back, threshing and beating, all to no avail.
15
He fought furiously, his great arms and legs threshing about like flails.
16
I collided with somebody and we went down in a threshing tangle.
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Threshing through the time
Threshing across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common