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Definition of Threshing floor
1. Noun. A floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain.
Definition of Threshing floor
1. Noun. The floor of a threshing house or similar area where grain is threshed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threshing Floor
Literary usage of Threshing floor
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)
"The Breton threshing-floor is well described by Souvestre. The sound of the flail
is one of the most familiar summer sounds in Brittany. ..."
2. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"... of the threshing floor. Some instances, however, occur of the heap being in
the centre, as at the present day, as in the accompanying cut. No. 434. ..."
3. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"THRESHING-FLOOR CEREMONIES IN UVA. By JAMES PARSONS. /^ERTAIN protective offerings
were found buried in the threshing- floor of a paddy field in the village ..."
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