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Threshing floor

noun
1.
A floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain.





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"Threshing floor" Quotes from Famous Books



... ducks forsake their sedges, Wending home to the wide barn-door, And loaded wains between the hedges Slowly creep to his threshing floor— ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... productive of Gods," or "The Land which gives birth to the Gods" (21). This is the land of which it has been said, "He who ploughs his soil shall be satisfied with bread and he shall make large his threshing floor," and also, "The Master of the Field, when they shall plough it, shall possess all good things." And all those Powers which are in this land which brought forth the God have received the Crown. That is why ...
— The Gnosis of the Light • F. Lamplugh


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