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Definition of Threshing machine
1. Noun. A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threshing Machine
Literary usage of Threshing machine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Notice to the purchaser, who is the local salesman for a threshing machine company,
of limitations upon the power of a general agent, with whom he if ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"threshing machine, a machine for threshing and separating grain from the straw.
The threshing floor of tho ancients was a flat surface of ground covered ..."
3. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1892)
"If you can bring a moveable threshing machine, constructed upon simple principles
to perfection, ..."
4. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"(ra) So where on an indictment for destroying a threshing machine, it appeared
that the machine was worked by water, and that the prosecutor, ..."
5. A History of the United States by William Coligny Doub (1909)
"Among the more important ones made before 1860 were the sewing machine, the reaper
and the threshing machine. Howe secured the first patent for his sewing ..."
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