threshing machine

a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.

Origin of threshing machine

First recorded in 1765–75

We heard the buzzing noise of the threshing-machine in the adjoining fields.

A Boy's Voyage Round the World |The Son of Samuel Smiles
The first threshing-machine Quito ever saw was made in 1867 by some California miners, but it remained unsold when we last saw it.

The Andes and the Amazon |James Orton
Some person unknown has put a threshing-machine inside the old bean and substituted a piece of brown paper for our tongue.

Jill the Reckless |P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
It was he who invented the first threshing-machine used in this county.

The Hillman |E. Phillips Oppenheim

All the time the cannon was booming in the northeast, but they paid no more attention to it than if it were a threshing-machine.

A Hilltop on the Marne |Mildred Aldrich

threshing machine

a machine for threshing crops