Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A floor or area on which grain is beaten out.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
threshing floor .
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Examples
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Samuel: “David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Samuel: “David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Samuel: “David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Samuel: “David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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“The grain is beaten out, commonly in the harvest field, by men, horses, or mules, on a threshing-floor prepared extempore for the purpose, where the ground is firm and dry, and the chaff is separated by winnowing.” —
Oeconomicus 2007
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Isch. Yes, but tell me, Socrates; do you know that if you begin the process from the windward portion (of the threshing-floor), you will find your chaff is carried over the whole area.
Oeconomicus 2007
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Yes, considering the distance,369 the chaff will hardly be carried across the corn into the empty portion of the threshing-floor.
Oeconomicus 2007
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Al. “the outer edge or rim of the threshing-floor.”
Oeconomicus 2007
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Mahomet may build their tawdry temple on the threshing-floor which
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Round a post stuck into the middle of the threshing-floor ran a dozen horses harnessed side by side, so that they formed one long radius.
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