threshing-mill

As for Tam, his teeth were chattering like a threshing-mill.

Prester John 2005

The patentees of this invention claim that their process, in the space of twenty-four hours, converts the flax and tow, as they come from the threshing-mill, into an article which may be spun and woven by the same machinery as cotton.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

It is now twenty years since we witnessed the working of the small mill alluded to, and the rice threshing-mill, with steam-engine attached, is now a splendid piece of operative machinery.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

A mile or so up the rivulet there was a farm-steading, and in that steading was the usual water-driven threshing-mill.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

When the plant has attained its full height of twenty to thirty inches, and its seed is ripened, it is harvested like grass with a mowing-machine, dried like hay or oats in the field, and then carried to the threshing-mill.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

This odd yellowness (or redness), as of grass over which chaff from the threshing-mill has blown, lay across the old pasture on this afternoon of his second century, as Old Dalton went to water the superannuated black horse that whinnied at his approach.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

As for Tam, his teeth were chattering like a threshing-mill.

Prester John John Buchan 1907

'Losh keep' s! there 's nae livin 'wi' her the day; her tongue 's little better than a threshing-mill. '

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

It was often told how he was far up Glen Urtach when the feeders of the threshing-mill caught young Burnbrae, and how he only stopped to change horses at his house, and galloped all the way to

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

At the threshing-mill, at the winnowing-machine, among the great rice stacks where they were packing and sorting and unloading from barges, the women were coarse, brutish, and densely ignorant; the men, in the main, the same.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875