Meaning & use
threshing floor
A hard, flat surface, often outdoors, used to separate grain from its husks and stalks after harvest.
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Farmers spread the wheat across the threshing floor and let oxen trample it to loosen the grain.
The village threshing floor sat at the edge of town, used by every family at harvest time.
A note on using this word
Threshing floors were central to traditional farming communities and appear frequently in historical and biblical texts as gathering places.
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