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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In wild towns the principal men were told to bring in so many thousand bunches of palay—the unthreshed rice.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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
She opened hostilities by taking the rod from the pump so that we could not fill our watercart, and the troops retaliated by stealing bundles of unthreshed wheat.
From From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry
The wheat barn was congested with unthreshed grain.
From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by John E. Copus
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
