Sentence examples for thresh from inspiring English sources

Farmers who until the 1970s spent half their working day on the back-breaking labour of lifting irrigation water now use diesel pumps, plough with tractors and thresh their wheat by machine.

Draft animal power has also been used to pump water, thresh grain, draw barges, and haul logs out of forests in lumbering operations.

With a flail, one man could thresh 7 bushels of wheat, 8 of rye, 15 of barley, 18 of oats, or 20 of buckwheat in a day (one bushel equals about 35 litres).

He said that the lords' earlier rebellion and disobedience called for "an avenging punishment" that would "thresh the traitors out even to the husk," and that the destruction and ruin of their persons would bring to his subjects a "peace" that would last forever.

Instead, cyberspace lit up with messages about the ethnicity of the tributes from District 11, Thresh and Rue, two deeply sympathetic characters who become sacrificial victims in the Hunger Game's pageant of violence.

Fong, whose Quake handle was Thresh (short for "threshold of pain"), is credited by Guinness with being the world's first professional gamer.

Among the agrarian festivals held in honour of Demeter were the following: (1) Haloa, apparently derived from halōs ("threshing floor"), begun at Athens and finished at Eleusis, where there was a threshing floor of Triptolemus, her first priest and inventor of agriculture; it was held in the month Poseideon (December).

For nigh on 20 years, he has held the nationalist standard in the threshing rooms and bars of the STUC all over the city.

Aside from his poetry, which was a life-long obsession, he was in turn a thresher, bird-scarer, plough boy, pot scourer and gardener.

IN A village in Thailand's north-east stands a communal rice-thresher in a padlocked cage.

It is not just grain itself: electricity and fuel for threshing and transport are also short.