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  2. Threshing machine - Wikipedia

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    A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.

  3. Threshers, pedal powered - Wikipedia

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    A simple thresher with a crank can be used to make this work much easier for the farmer. In most cases it takes two people to work these: one person to turn the crank and the other to feed the grain through the machine. These threshers can be built using simple materials and can improve the efficiency of grain threshing.

  4. Threshing - Wikipedia

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    An animal-powered thresher. Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. [1]

  5. Threshing board - Wikipedia

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    Every time the work of dragging the threshing board is repeated, the grain is stirred again, moving more straw to the edge of the threshing floor. If too much grain is spread on the ground, it has to be raked and swept in order to make a round mound and, if possible, to remove as much straw as possible.

  6. Combine harvester - Wikipedia

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    IH McCormick 141 self-propelled Harvester-Thresher c. 1954–57, shown in thresher mode, with harvester dismounted For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff ...

  7. Thresher - Wikipedia

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    Thresher may refer to: Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head: Pedal powered thresher, a low-tech threshing machine that is operated using pedals. Thresher shark, a type of shark with a distinctly scythe-shaped tail

  8. Cops lie to suspects during interrogations. Should detectives ...

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    California law enforcement is in the midst of a culture war, as experts inside and outside the system question a commonly used police interrogation method that they say can lead to false ...

  9. Scythe - Wikipedia

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    A scythe (/ s aɪ ð /, rhyming with writhe) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops.It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing.