The person who cuts, binds, orthreshes the last sheaf is called either the Old Woman or the Wolf, etc.
As in the spring customs the tree-spirit is represented both by a tree and by a person,(550) so in the harvest customs the corn-spirit is represented both by the last sheaf and by the person who cuts or binds or threshes it.
Thus far the representatives of the corn-spirit have generally been the man or woman who cuts, binds, or threshes the last corn.
In regard to the first head, we have seen that in modern Europe the person who cuts or binds or threshes the last sheaf is often exposed to rough treatment at the hands of his fellow-labourers.
As in the spring customs the tree-spirit is represented both by a tree and by a person,(1163) so in the harvest customs the corn-spirit is represented both by the last sheaf and by the person who cuts or binds or threshes it.
As in the spring customs the tree-spirit is represented both by a tree and by a person, so in the harvest customs the corn-spirit is represented both by the last sheaf and by the person who cuts or binds or threshes it.
So shethreshes on down the glorious coast, she and her swarming passengers, with the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday eating out her heart.
Consequently, she tears and threshes the water to pieces, and piles it under her nose and cannot put it under her cleanly.
It threshes miserably, no matter how you set the screw; it threshes badly, and the grain falls into the straw.
All over the West particularly the farmer threshes his wheat all at one time, he disposes of it all at one time, and in a great many instances the straw is wasted.
If he raises flax at all, instead of putting it into yarn and making gowns for his children, as he did fifty years or more ago, he threshes his flax, sells the seed, and burns the straw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threshes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
