Sentence examples for threshing from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of thresh
Now, seeds are planted directly into the field by machine and everything from threshing to milling is done by specialist firms.
A millennium later it reached China: paddy rice was still thousands of years in the future.Wherever they went, the farmers brought their habits: not just sowing, reaping and threshing, but baking, fermenting, owning, hoarding.
Farmers in the region are once again threshing their paddy crops at night.Yet in the east, tension between peace and rights is already acute.
Somebody started trying to preserve and enhance a field of chickpeas or wheat-grass and soon planting, weeding, reaping and threshing were born.Quite independently, people took the same step in at least six other parts of the world over the next few thousand years: the Yangzi valley, the central valley of New Guinea, Mexico, the Andes, West Africa and the Amazon basin.
Special techniques are applied during the stage of flowering and seed development and also in harvesting and threshing the seeds.
The system of social values is revealed by the system of guardian spirits: The house spirit protects the luck of the home; the cattle spirit watches over the cattle during the winter (in the summer the cattle come under the forest spirit); and the barn spirit looks after threshing luck.
Most farms are small, however, and mechanization has been confined to the use of simple machines and tools, such as rice transplanters, foot-operated rice-threshing machines, and a tube water raiser that is replacing the old wooden trough and paddles.
Cessna worked as a farmhand, prospector, threshing-machine operator, and automobile salesman until he saw a flying circus in Oklahoma and decided to be a flyer.
The barn spirit watched over the animals, the threshing-house spirit saw to it that the fire for drying grain was kept burning, and the mill spirit kept the miller awake to keep the mill running.
Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.
A sequence of constructions made of cloth, cardboard, concrete, chipboard, plaster and polystyrene fill the white galleries, which retain their original names Threshing Barn, Piggery and Workshop and overflow out onto lawns and into courtyards.
