When the sheaves are removed in order to be threshed on the upland part of the holding, they are carried away at either end of a pole on a man's shoulder or are piled up on the back of an ox, cow or pony.
If he had such a machine he would like to improve it so that it would lay out the threshed straw evenly, so making the straw more valuable for the many uses to which it is put.
The heads of millet and the threshed grain of other upland crops were drying on mats by the roadside, for in the areas where land is so much in demand there is no other space available.
With a writhe and a hiss the blinded snake threshed to one side and burrowed for shelter.
Then both boys leaped to the deck beside Mr. Temple, who, oblivious of all but the danger to his son, was bending over the latter as he threshed about at grips with "Black George.
Back and forth they threshed on the floor as Frank paused above them, uncertain where to strike to aid his comrade.
We can't stay here and bethreshed to pieces," Vic cried.
Under his grip Gresh lay motionless, all power of resistance threshedout of him.
Across the stone-floored cave they threshed in fury, until at the farther wall Gresh flung Vic from him against the jagged rock with a force that cut a gash across the boy's head.
The wheat was threshed and ground into the finest of flour.
He threshed the first grainthreshed in the county in the fall of that year, for Fiske, on a farm three miles below Stillwater.
The straw-fork and rake were to turn the straw from off the threshed corn, and the fan and wing to clean it.
In Cambridgeshire I am informed that hay made in this manner is not called "stover" till the seeds have been threshed out.
Wheat that is threshed early keeps with difficulty.
I had threshed this out with Polly and she had yielded, after stipulating that I must keep my hands off the home forty.
The threshers came and threshed the wheat and oats.
Anciently grain was threshed with flails or trodden out by cattle and horses.
Its huge body threshed from side to side, knocking giant trees to the ground.
Its wingsthreshed uselessly as it tumbled on the rocky ground.
I was thinking, Miss Betsy," he said, "how to get the grain threshed and sent to the mills before prices come down.
Looking beyond, they could see that the stranded porpoise, if the object out yonder really proved to be such a creature, still threshed the water and strove to break away from its place of captivity.
The trapped sea monster threshed the water still, but not in the same violent manner as before; and his fury seemed to be rapidly diminishing as the result of his wounds began to be felt.
They threshed grain with a hickory stick, and made their corn meal by grating the ears across a strip of tin with holes punched in it.
Have I not brought it all home and threshed it for thee, and set everything in order?
Then he gave him his first task: "In my barn are three hundred ricks of corn; by the morning light thou shalt have threshed and sifted them so that stalk lies by stalk, chaff by chaff, and grain by grain.
The mate then took a stout rope's end andthreshed him until he roared for mercy.
During his stay we have very thoroughly threshed out our hopes and fears and went into the plan which Gouraud thinks offers chances of a record-breaking victory.
I havethreshed the whole question out in a practical way.
In the long vigil last night, he had threshed the whole thing out.
Silence from Mr. Queed, the question of the editorship having already been thoroughly threshed out between them.
Doubtless doomed Smathers would have smiled to note the slowness with which his great rival's mind threshed out such a question as this.
In his frenzy, Lem threshed and tumbled Brimbecomb about on the hut floor, the sight of his rival's blood sending him mad; and always the sound of his gasps and chokes rose above the struggle.
Such things have to be threshed out in court, although much will depend upon what the youngsters wish to do.
Lon was staring out upon the lake with eyes somber and restless, eyes darkening under thoughts that threshed through his brains like a whirlwind.
The sudden shifting of the strain had thrown the walking-beam out of plumb, and the connecting rods had snapped off and threshed wildly about.
I threshed my brains to find a way out that would do everybody good.
The question was turned over in all its aspects, threshed out on this side and on that, and numerous schemes were proposed for readjusting the imposts.
There was many a problem to be threshed out, threshed out more intimately than it could have been in a larger and more formal paper.
Usually only sufficient rice is threshed and cleaned for the consumption of one or two days.
When rice is needed for food bunches of the palay, as tied up at the harvest, are brought and laid in the small pocket of the wooden mortar where they are threshed out of the fruit head.
Each ato brought a score of loads of palay, and for two days women threshedit out in a long wooden trough for all to eat in a great feast.
One or two mortarsful is thus threshed and put aside on a winnowing tray.
Millet is stored in the harvest bunches, and must be threshed before it is eaten.
After being threshed in the wooden mortar the winnowed seeds are again returned to the mortar and crushed.
When ripe the stalks are reaped with a sickle, and the seeds threshed out with a flail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threshed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
