threshing floors
- plural of threshing floor.
Example Sentences
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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 Still, John
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 King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
Continuing my walk on Wednesday, I passed one of the numerous threshing floors of the country.
From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos
The regular strokes of the flails on the threshing floors of the estate had a pleasant sound in the clear morning air.
From Gertrude's Marriage by Heimburg, W.
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 Fergusson, Harvey
