threshes
- present tense form of thresh (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2018
Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll.
From National Geographic • Sep. 18, 2017
Reality TV is shiny, loopy, and fun, and it retains some of these qualities even when it is being excoriated as a hideous machine that threshes smart and decent people in its maw.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2015
When the farmer threshes his grain, he does not do it to destroy the wheat, but simply to separate it from the chaff.
From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Stall, Sylvanus
