threshing-floors

I went to see several threshing-floors, — clean, open spaces outside barns, — where the grain is laid on mats and threshed by two or four men with heavy revolving flails.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

This is either owing to the particles of the mill-stone rubbed off in grinding, or to what adheres to the corn itself, in being threshed upon the common ground; for there are no threshing-floors in this country.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

This was not all revealed in a breath, but at evening encounters on the stone threshing-floors, when, patients disposed of, the doctor would smoke and the lama snuff, while Kim watched the wee cows grazing on the housetops, or threw his soul after his eyes across the deep blue gulfs between range and range.

Kim 2003

There were twelve threshing-floors, and the twelve men were at work on six of them — two on each.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

Sheep and cattle grazed among stone threshing-floors.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

I took as a child through my native province, when the threshing-floors at the farmhouses resounded from every part with the sound of a flail, and when the carts, loaded with golden sheaves, came in by all the roads.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In the outskirts of the forest belonging to the castle we found peasants already proceeding to the threshing-floors; women in lines marching to the wells with jars cleverly balanced upon their heads; and camels kneeling on the ground munching their breakfast of cut straw, with most serious and unchanging expression of countenance, only the large soft eyes were pleasant to look at.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

And the Gobardhua (from _gobar_, cowdung) collect the droppings of cattle on the threshing-floors and wash out and eat the undigested grain.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Late in the spring the toiling cattle left the threshing-floors, and traversed the fields in long procession, two and two, lashed together by

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

And Hotep's thousand cattle tramped his threshing-floors during the long winter, and until the later nightly snows signalled the coming of a tardy spring; and yet the patient mules streamed through the city, and wore deeper paths into the sides of the Gnomons, until one by one the great chambers were filled and sealed.

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass