When they had secured Charles's crops, and threshed his corn, the only thing remaining to them was to return home. |
When grain is threshed the seeds are separated from the husk and the rest of the ear. |
It stripped the grain from the stalks and threshed them to separate the grain from the ears. |
Spikes were threshed and florets separated from chaff by sieving and forced-air separation. |
The pods were threshed, and the seeds variously winnowed, yandied, parched, pounded, ground, and made into a paste to be baked into cakes. |
Prior to the 1790s farmers in Europe and America threshed their wheat much the same as their predecessors had done since Biblical times. |