threshing

Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.

And when they came unto the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the Ark; for the oxen stumbled.

The cause of it was that the French owner had brought a threshing machine and was threshing out his wheat.

Over the good things at our corner table we did a little threshing on our own account—and got a lot more chaff and no grain.

There was no decent shelter to be found and so I gladly set up my bed on the threshing floor, and slept under the starry sky.