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▪ I. ˈthrashing-, ˈthreshing-floor
A prepared hard level surface on which corn is threshed: cf. floor n.1 6.
α1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clvi. (Bodl. MS.), Þe greyne þat is loweste in þe þresschinge floore is beste to sede. Ibid. clxxv, Feeldes and þresschinge flores. 1611Bible Gen. l. 10 They came to the threshing floore [1885 Revised threshing-floor] of Atad. 1839Longfellow Village Blacksmith iv, The burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
β1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 278 In vain the Hind shall vex the Thrashing-floor, For empty Chaff and Straw will be thy Store. 1805Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 47 The size of the thrashing-floors of barns must vary according to circumstances.
▪ II. ˈthrashing-, ˈthreshing-machine
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk. Also in Comb.
α1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 78 Oxen are at least equal..to horses, for working threshing-machines. 1812Examiner 21 Dec. 813/1 W. Forrest, Shiffnal, Salop, threshing-machine-maker. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. ix. §4 It may not answer to a small farmer to own a threshing machine, for the small quantity of corn he has to thresh.
β1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 505/2 The first thrashing machine attempted in modern times..was invented in Edinburgh..about the year 1732. 1834–6Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 92/1 Where the thrashing machine supplies the place of the flail. 1861Times 24 Sept., The fine farm-steading, with its stalls, barns, 12-horse fixed steam engine, thrashing machine, saw-mill, bone-mill, &c.
▪ III. ˈthrashing-, ˈthreshing-mill
A fixed threshing-machine; usually, one driven by water or wind power (though the name was also given to those driven by a horizontal wheel drawn round by horses or oxen).
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 506/1 Such was the thrashing mill invented by Mr. Michael Stirling..1758. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 308 The Scotch threshing mill seems to be entirely unknown in France. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 86 A considerable fall of water..used to give motion to a thrashing mill. 1902R. C. Maclagan Evil Eye in W. Highl. 64 They had no threshing-mill and did it all with flails. |