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Answer for the clue "Threshing machine ", 9 letters:
separator

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A separator is a centrifugal device that separates milk into cream and skimmed milk . Separation was commonly performed on farms in the past. Most farmers milked a few cows, usually by hand, and separated milk. Some of the skimmed milk was consumed while ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "separatist," agent noun from separate (v.). As a mechanical device for separating, from 1831.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An object located between two or more things and hence separate#Verb them. 2 A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk. 3 An agent performing the action of separating.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separator \Sep"a*ra`tor\, n. [L.] One who, or that which, separates. Specifically: (Steam Boilers) A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. (Mining) An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. ...

Usage examples of separator.

It is usually threshed with a huller, but may also be threshed like the medium red variety by a grain separator with a suitable attachment.

It is threshed with a huller or with a grain separator with suitable attachments.

Ordinarily, the work can best be done by clover hullers, the same as are used in threshing medium red and mammoth clover, but grain separators, with certain attachments, will now do this work in good form.

The helmet and relief options went into the sterilizers, the used clothing into a separator, and the suit and gloves into the recycler.

The helmet and relief options went into the sterilizers, the used clothing into a separator, and the suit and gloves into the recycler.

The gas chromatograph which separates out volatile substances and the mass spectrometer which detects ions were divided by a palladium separator.

His ears were shocked and assaulted by a myriad-tongued clamour, clashing steel, straining belts, jarring woodwork, while the impalpable chaff powder from the separators settled like dust in his hair, his ears, eyes, and mouth.

A zigzag of silver ran down the hillside tovthe huts—a Decauville Track, Bond guessed, to bring the guano from the diggings down to the crusher and separator.

A zigzag of silver ran down the hillside tovthe huts-a Decauville Track, Bond guessed, to bring the guano from the diggings down to the crusher and separator.

The last iron truck of the day started off on the Decauville Track that snaked down the mountainside to the crusher and separator.

She looked at Jay's alternative, a centrifugal separator, and shook her head—.

And the vat had to be a waste separator, designed to send liquids to the recycling evaporators and solids to the replicator mass reclaimers.

Centrifugal separators, fermenters, freeze dryers, BL4 containment equipment, even known pathogens and toxins, are all readily available on the export market for legitimate medical, agricultural, and industrial purposes.

You took any piece, crushed it, gasified it, ionized it, put it through the electromagnetic isotope separator, and drew forth as much (or, rather, as minutely little) germanium as any other piece would have given you.

You took any piece, crushed it, gasified it, ionized it, put it through the electromagnetic isotope separator, and drew forth as much—or, rather, as minutely little—germanium as any other piece would have given you.