threshing machine
a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
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How to use threshing machine in a sentence
The cause of it was that the French owner had brought a threshing machine and was threshing out his wheat.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieMr. Grile hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod GrileThe threshing-machine passed, waving its wings, and his dead children sat with him through the night.
The Devourers | Annie Vivanti ChartresEach manufacturer sent his best piano, plough, threshing-machine, or sewing-machine.
A New Atmosphere | Gail HamiltonThe right and left sides of a threshing machine are reckoned from the position of the feeder as he stands facing the machine.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. Stephenson
British Dictionary definitions for threshing machine
a machine for threshing crops
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