thresh
verb (used with object)
to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
unthreshed
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a word derived from
thresh.
Example Sentences
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As the traveller passes through the country, he will observe sheaves of unthreshed grain elevated upon poles beside the farm-houses and barns, which are placed there to furnish the feathered visitors with food.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou
It is about 2 feet wide and is usually stored with unthreshed rice and millet or with jars of preserved meats.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
It is his staple product—palay, the unthreshed rice.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
One corner of the living room is screened off with a large white blanket called tabing, and behind it the medium places unthreshed rice and jars which she has decked with vines and leaves.
From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Fay-Cooper Cole
The men got bundles of straw, or possibly of wheat unthreshed, from a stack in the field to lie upon.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob Dolson Cox
