Threshing Mill

As for Tam, his teeth were chattering like a threshing-mill. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The patentees of this invention claim that their process, in the space of twenty-four hours, converts the flax and tow, as they come from the threshing-mill, into an article which may be spun and woven by the same machinery as cotton. ❋ Various (N/A)

When the plant has attained its full height of twenty to thirty inches, and its seed is ripened, it is harvested like grass with a mowing-machine, dried like hay or oats in the field, and then carried to the threshing-mill. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is now twenty years since we witnessed the working of the small mill alluded to, and the rice threshing-mill, with steam-engine attached, is now a splendid piece of operative machinery. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

A mile or so up the rivulet there was a farm-steading, and in that steading was the usual water-driven threshing-mill. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

This odd yellowness (or redness), as of grass over which chaff from the threshing-mill has blown, lay across the old pasture on this afternoon of his second century, as Old Dalton went to water the superannuated black horse that whinnied at his approach. ❋ Various (1915)

'Losh keep' s! there 's nae livin 'wi' her the day; her tongue 's little better than a threshing-mill. ' ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

It was often told how he was far up Glen Urtach when the feeders of the threshing-mill caught young Burnbrae, and how he only stopped to change horses at his house, and galloped all the way to ❋ Various (1878)

At the threshing-mill, at the winnowing-machine, among the great rice stacks where they were packing and sorting and unloading from barges, the women were coarse, brutish, and densely ignorant; the men, in the main, the same. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Where horse-power is used for threshing, the wind is still often relied upon for removing the chaff, as of old; but where steam-engines are employed, there are often connected with the threshing-mill, very complete separators and fanners, together with elevators and other labor-saving machinery, some of it the best for such purposes that I have ever seen. ❋ Unknown (1856)