Meanings of treading out in English

On inquiry, I learned that these were used for treading out the wild rice.

One night had sufficed to him for that treading out.

The time of treading out the grapes was a festival of laughter, love-making, and song.

She was treading out a petticoat with her bare feet, presumably on a flat stone.

That race has ever been like the patient ox, treading out the corn, whose leading trait is endurance.

The harvest here was already gathered in, and mules and horses were treading out the corn in the fields.

Passing a doorway, J---saw some men treading out the grapes in a great vat with their naked feet.

Head and heart have nothing to do with his wordy operations, and they go on like an ox treading out corn.

When Cambyses came down from Persia and thundered across Egypt, treading out royalty and priesthood, he trampled out at the same time civilization itself.