threshing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.

After 1825 these rude devices began to be supplanted by the threshing machine. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
After the threshing process it is sacked and stored in the fields in which it has grown. — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
Everywhere were sections of flat wheat-plains, stirring with threshing, with clattering machinery and the flash of blown straw. — Free Air, Sinclair Lewis

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