For this purpose several threshers will unite together, leap up into the air, and strike tremendous blows with their long tails upon the whale's body as they fall back into the sea.
Before long the whale is dead, and both threshers and swordfishes are tearing great strips of flesh from the carcass and greedily devouring them.
Steam was roaring from the engine, for the threshers were firing recklessly, and the thudding clank of the engine and hum of the clattering mill were almost deafening.
The commissariat required supervision when there were threshers about.
I'll be going round with the threshers in a day or two.
The threshers couldn't have got their machine here without the boys.
The threshers were expected on the morrow, for throughout that country the wheat is threshed where it stands in the sheaves, and it had always been a difficult matter to convey the mill and engine across the ravine.
Some of the threshers rush at it and tear the best of it out; others lay on with their flails so recklessly that heads are sometimes broken.
At the supper given to the threshers he has to eat out of the cream-ladle and to drink a great deal.
The flesh of the ox is eaten by the threshers at supper.
When only a single pile of corn remains to be threshed, all the threshers suddenly step back a few paces, as if at the word of command.
The corn-spirit is supposed to lurk as long as he can in the corn, retreating before the reapers, the binders, and the threshers at their work.
If the threshers catch him they detain him over night and punish him by keeping him from the harvest-supper.
Suddenly Willie Gillespie fell to sneezing; he it was at whose farm the threshers had been that day, and who had been profanely questioned by AEneas Ramsay, as already told.
So they made pies and cakes and bread until their cupboards were full; and surely enough the threshers did come with the threshing-machine, which was painted red, and went "Puff!
The threshersare coming," they said, "and we must make plenty of things for them to eat.
Footnote 169-2: The high wages paid to mowers and threshers may be accounted for on this ground (Sec.
In England, the same plague increased the wages of threshers from an average of 1.
For weeks Lincoln had looked forward to the coming of the threshers with the greatest eagerness, and during the whole of the day appointed, Owen and he hung on the gate and gazed down the road to see if the machine was coming.
As they lay there in their beds under the sloping rafter roof, they heard the[2] hand riding furiously away to tell some of the neighbors that the threshers had come.
It was too much to expect of Jake Erlock, the tenant at the farm, who, since his wife's death had lived there alone, that he would provide meals for the score of threshers who would bring the harvesting appetite to the work of the great day.
Out in the wheat-fields were engines with steam already up, with combines and threshers and wagons waiting for the word to start.
The threshers lead the way, singing and plying their flails as they advance, thus effectually clearing the road for the rest.
You will not get any milk from me," said the cow, "until you bring me a whisp of straw from those threshers yonder.
Threshers by the quarter with meat and drink, for the quarter and making clean of wheat and rye, 5d.
Abrode for the raine, when thou canst do no good; then go let thy flayles, as the threshers were wood.
In the southern province of Ceylon "the threshers behave as if they were in a temple of the gods when they put the corn into the bags.
The combination of reapers and threshers in one machine has been most largely developed in California.
In 1853, when a famous trial of rival threshers was held in England, the American machine did three times as much as the best English machine, and did it better.
There are robbers in that house, but if they try to prevent your taking your own tell them that all the threshers of the country are coming to beat them with flails.
The robbers were very frightened when he told them about the threshers coming and they went away from that part of the country.
But in spite of all that Alec and Ben could do, when the threshers knocked off work for the day and sauntered down to the field where the reaping was going on, it looked as if the "Old King" were to win his bet.
The brown-threshers and bluebirds were singing merrily above him, and the squirrels were chattering their nonsense in the distance.
The brown-threshers came next, and they were just as full of chatter and life as they were the year before.
The threshers were coming at eight o'clock, and they hoped to get the engine and threshing-machine in order and be well under way at nine.
The threshers thought they would be done by six o'clock, so they decided not to stop for supper at five, as was the custom, but wait for their evening meal till the work of the day was completed.
Mr. Pertell built a little play about the work, the principal scene in one being where the threshers were at work, and afterward they were shown at dinner in the open air.
A number of Mrs. Apgar's neighbors came over to help her cook, as is usually the case when the threshers come, so altogether some good films were obtained of this phase of rural life.
In later years we had self-packing and weighing threshers with blowers that moved the straw further from the thresher.
Threshers eliminated the time-consuming chore of hand-flailing the grain, but the farmer still had to cut and stack his harvest, and it took several men a number of days to run the machine.
Combined harvesters and threshers have been known since 1836, but they have been much improved and are now built on a much larger scale.
Flax-threshers for beating the grain from the bolls of the cured flax plant, removing the bolls, releasing and cleaning the seed, are also a modern invention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threshers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
