threshing floor
noun
a place, either outdoors or within a building, where grain can be threshed.
threshing floors
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pluralof threshing floor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Near here, too, large three-mule loads of dry earth compost were going to the fields and men were busy pulverizing and mixing it on the threshing floors preparatory for use.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
You will see grain threshed by herds of goats and ponies driven around and around the threshing floors, as men threshed grain before the Bible was written.
From The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson
Once there was an old woman who lived on the grain she could collect from other people’s threshing floors.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
We had a Rugby football that winter, and in a field by the river, another of the wide threshing floors, we began to play when the snow melted.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by John Still
Jove's flaming car is o'er Olympus driven, And thunders roll along the threshing floors of heaven.
From Vacation Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
