thresh barley

Frequency: 3.51.2 per million words

To separate grain from the rest of the barley plant.

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  • Farmers use a machine to thresh the barley after harvesting.
  • Last autumn, they threshed the barley in the old barn.
  • The sound of threshing barley filled the air during the harvest festival.
  • We will thresh the barley as soon as it is dry enough.
  • The barley was threshed using traditional flails before the invention of modern machinery.
  • He has just finished threshing the barley from the north field.
  • To get the valuable grain, you must first thresh the barley.
  • For centuries, communities would gather together to thresh barley by hand.
  • You must thresh the barley carefully to avoid damaging the grains.
  • The workers' main job was to thresh the harvested barley.