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threshing floor

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Noun1.threshing floor - a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grainthreshing floor - a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain
area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"
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threshing floor
n → Dreschboden m, → Tenne f
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805-809) Look about you very carefully and throw out Demeter's holy grain upon the well-rolled (43) threshing floor on the seventh of the mid-month.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Because may be when they came she'd be hackling flax or threshing on the threshing floor, and they'd be ashamed to see her, and she'd laugh, or resent the present.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
 
 
 
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