thresh
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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
I didn’t know that, on a nineteenth-century farm, one might see horses “walking on treadmills that ran machines to compress hay into bundles and to thresh wheat.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016
Q: Does he thresh things out with you?
From US News • Jun. 5, 2015
Winter brought the people indoors to weave yarn into fabric, sew clothing, thresh grain, and keep the fires going.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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