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With the two-horse team and plough he cut a trench around the house and sheds, and then another trench around the stacks of unthreshed wheat.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

Padre Blanco says that the natives use a decoction of camias and unthreshed rice in diarrhœa and bilious colic.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

In the district of D�sseldorf the straw-man burned on Shrove Tuesday was made of an unthreshed sheaf of corn.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

He carried with him sugar-cane and unthreshed rice which he gave to the girl with explicit directions for its use.

From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole, Fay-Cooper

Furthermore, after the palay harvest each year the bundles of unthreshed rice or palay are neatly piled into a stack about a tall stake which is set up in the “kaingin.”

From The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon by Barrows, David Prescott