threshing machine
noun
,
Agriculture
1.
a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
Origin
1765-75
Examples from the web for
threshing machine
Levin invents a buckwheat-
threshing machine
and it scorches the buckwheat.
Workers also were needed to operate the steam engine, or tractor, hitched to the
threshing machine
.
Later, a
threshing machine
and a turning lathe were built on the mill platform.
After drying, the chestnuts are put in a
threshing machine
to be shelled.
He invented the little horse power
threshing machine
, built a little dam there and fixed him a power wheel, a water wheel.
Upon this dirt floor the grain was poured as it came from the separator of the
threshing machine
.
British Dictionary definitions for
threshing machine
threshing machine
noun
1.
a machine for threshing crops