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Definition of Threshes
1. thresh [v] - See also: thresh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threshes
Literary usage of Threshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"He ploughs, he reaps, he threshes the grain, in the spirit and gladness of
patriarchal faith; as it is his labour, so is it his chief joy in life. ..."
2. Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah by Franz Delitzsch (1873)
"He threshes it; but He does not thresh it only: He also knocks; and when He
threshes, He does not continue threshing for ever, ie as Caspari has well ..."
3. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal and by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Jacob Louis Kadushin (1921)
"Because the liability for support comes at the time of the settlement and the
liability of the flagellation arrives at the time he threshes with her when ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1855)
"That the said machine is moved by any regular power, and threshes with common
... which threshes the grain with a row of flails fixed in an axis turned ..."
5. The General Ordinances of the North-West Territories: In Force September 1 by Northwest Territories, Reginald Rimmer (1907)
"... c, 60 l;i March, 1889 x-rson threshes or causes to Thresher another person,
at or for a take entitled to f remuneration the person wh^> so threshes ..."
6. Gnomon of the New Testament: Pointing Out, from the Natural Force of the by Johann Albrecht Bengel (1864)
"Of his hope — Abstract for the concrete : of the fruits, in the hope of which
he, who now threshes, plowed. Be partake? — Supply ought. ..."
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