What is "threshed"

Usage examples of "threshed".

Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless.

He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten.

She straightened the limbs that had threshed about in the death struggle and crossed his hands on his breast.

That was a tricky passage down, when the cord threshed like an eel and I didn’t want to burn the hide off my palms.

Everything you see around you was dug, forged, sawed an’ dovetailed together, fire-baked, planted, plowed, cultivated, harvested, threshed, with these.

Laughing, the others waded in to butcher it alive as it threshed, crowing mirth at its struggles and at one of their number who took a deep stab in the thigh from the horns.

All cut, and carted to the villages, and stacked—hence easy to burn—but not threshed or bagged, and certainly not carried into Port Murchison.

A well-thatched stack would keep the grain safe for half a year, rain or no, so you threshed it a bit at a time, as the other demands of the land allowed.

Put out an offer for, hmmm, ten percent above current market for clean threshed grain, beans, meat, fruit, alfalfa fodder—payable in hard cash.

Its houses nestled together, a double tow that ended at a great barn where grain was threshed, in this rainy climate, and which would serve as a fortress in case of attack.

Bellowing in glee, fangs agleam, the vodianoi threshed after the nearest.