threshing machine
noun
thresh·ing machine
ˈthre-shiŋ- 
ˈthra-
: a machine for separating grain crops into grain or seeds and straw
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The 1912 threshing machine was used by the Hageman family and area farmers for decades and is one of Naper Settlement’s macro-artifacts.
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
One of my fondest childhood memories is of visiting my maternal grandparents’ farm and watching the intricate moving mechanisms of the threshing machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Twelve days into the mission, Jane Poynter, a young Englishwoman in charge of the farm, put her hand in a threshing machine while winnowing rice.
—Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
The King family from Morgan Township took a break from threshing wheat next to their 1939 John Deere threshing machine that can be used for small grains like wheat, oats, and barley.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
Two 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
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
One of my fondest childhood memories is of visiting my maternal grandparents’ farm and watching the intricate moving mechanisms of the threshing machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Twelve days into the mission, Jane Poynter, a young Englishwoman in charge of the farm, put her hand in a threshing machine while winnowing rice.
—Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
The King family from Morgan Township took a break from threshing wheat next to their 1939 John Deere threshing machine that can be used for small grains like wheat, oats, and barley.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
Two 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
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