: a machine for separating grain crops into grain or seeds and straw
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebTwo stories tall and 30 feet long, the Wolf is a 48-year-old German threshing machine, as gray as an aircraft carrier and as scarred as Frankenstein’s monster. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019 Royer also did primitive American paintings of his childhood, of barn raisings and threshing machines, Vallillo said. Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 7 June 2018 Students have worked on projects in Bangladesh, Brazil and Ethiopia, where a portable threshing machine was developed for farmers. Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
Word History
First Known Use
1775, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
threshing machine
noun
: a machine used to separate grain from harvested plants