| 单词 | thrashing floor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrashing floor thrashing floor n. now chiefly regional a hard, level surface on which a crop is threshed; = threshing floor n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > threshing field or floor bartonc950 summer fieldc1384 thrashing floora1398 corn-floora1425 summer halla1425 threshing floora1450 summer floor1535 threshing barn1812 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxv. 1066 Maistres vseþ a ȝerde, and so doþ he þat meteþ, kepeþ, and deleþ feeldes and þraisshynge flores [1495 de Worde thraisshynge floores]. 1655 T. Harvey tr. G. B. Spagnoli Bucolicks ix. 87 Ev'ry where the thrashing floors resound. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 In vain the Hind shall vex the thrashing Floor, For empty Chaff and Straw will be thy Store. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 47 The size of the thrashing-floors of barns must vary according to circumstances. 2007 Iran & Caucasus 11 15 After winnowing, when the work on the thrashing-floor is over, some groups of the Khorasani Kurds draw a cross-sign on the grain heaps cleaned from the husk. < as lemmas |
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