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
This Sunday and next also offer the museum’s Matzo Factory, at 1, 1:45 and 2:30 p.m., in which children can thresh and grind wheat and bake their own matzos to take home for Passover.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 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
Then, we came and gathered up what remained of the paddy and took it away to thresh and winnow.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
