thresh
Example Sentences
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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
Everywhere we went, we stopped to help women pick chiles or men thresh rice.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2015
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
In a few weeks’ time, my neighbors will come to help thresh my grain.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
