threshing floor
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈθrɛʃɪŋ flɔr/
- Specialized
:
plaza de trilla
- Each autumn, the community would gather at the threshing floor to help with the grain collection.
Here we are at the Austin's Ale House to be settled at harvest time on the threshing floor.
- Here we are at the Austin's Ale House to be settled at harvest time on the threshing floor.
Examples
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The old threshing floor was a vital part of the farming process, where grain was prepared for storage.
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Ruth is sent to lie with him on the threshing floor.
Blog text (21) -
When he comes, he will clear the threshing floor... ...and gather the grain into his barn.
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And she went down to the threshing floor, and did exactly as her mother-in-law instructed.
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Our food in the threshing floors was burnt and the vineyards were also destroyed.
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Grain was seeded by hand, cut with scythes, bound, and set to dry on the fields, and hauled home to the farmyard threshing floor.
Academic text (1992) -
He's winnowing barley on the threshing floor, and Ruth is supposed to bathe herself, anoint herself, dress up, and go out at night to the threshing floor.
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After the harvest, the farmers took the grain to the threshing floor to separate it from the husks.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area where grain is threshed' is directly and compositionally derived from 'thresh' (to beat grain to separate seeds) combined with 'floor' (a flat surface); the -ing form signals the activity/place. This verb+place construction is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Threshing floor is from old farms where people spread harvested grain on a flat floor and did the threshing — they beat or stamped the grain to separate it from the husks. So the phrase simply means 'an area for separating grain' and the picture of people working on that flat place helps you remember it.