threshing

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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

The country’s military is rejiggering some of its munitions factories to produce tractors and threshing machines, while also converting some airfields into greenhouses.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023

A cloud passed, and the full glare of the sun fell on this year’s 1904 models of the Case Agitator threshing machine.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck