thresh

Traditionally in Vietnam, people would grow their own rice and thresh it, some boiling it in a clay or metal pot over a fire of leftover rice straw.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

We saw a pair of finger blades that Eristavi had used to thresh grain.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

In the absence of narrative tension, then, we are left with this thresh of rival perspectives, all generously delivered in the same third-person omniscient.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2017

Q: Does he thresh things out with you?

From US News ● Jun. 5, 2015

Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2018

Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 18, 2017

Reality TV is shiny, loopy, and fun, and it retains some of these qualities even when it is being excoriated as a hideous machine that threshes smart and decent people in its maw.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2015

Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

From The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians by Anonymous

Ukraine sowed a total of 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat for its 2022 crop, but only 5 million hectares could be threshed by farmers on government-controlled territory.

From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022

The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014

The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn’t see it.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

A short walk away, a threshing machine spews clouds of dust and chaff as wheat pours out in a steady stream, rattling into worn brown sacks at farmers' feet.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

Farmers have already completed the 2023 wheat harvest, threshing 21.94 million metric tons.

From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023

She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

All I wanted was to be on a threshing crew, to be in the stubble fields on crisp mornings like the dawn of creation.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck