The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrashing \Thrash"ing\, a. & n. from Thrash, v.
Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out.
Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of threshing floor English)
Usage examples of "threshing-floor".
The destroying angel hath stood still, as of old by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, and the blade is drawn in his hand, by which, at no distant date, Richard, the lion-hearted, shall be as low as the meanest peasant.
The great golden dome rising above Damascus Gate, beyond it really, is the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock, the rock which was called the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite when King David first came to Jerusalem and made it his capital, the place where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac and where Solomon raised the Temple and where Mohammed is said to have mounted his horse to ascend to heaven, a great broad rock which is the heart of the Temple Mount.
And there is the ploughshare and the winepress and the threshing-floor.
As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some goodly threshing-floor, when men are winnowing- while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaff- heaps grow whiter and whiter- even so did the Achaeans whiten in the dust which the horses' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them back to battle, and they bore down with might upon the foe.