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单词 thrashing-flail
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thrashing-flail
a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1a), as in thrashing-flail, thrashing-instrument, etc. Cf. threshing n. Compounds 1. Now chiefly regional.Recorded earliest in thrashing floor n. at Compounds 1b.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxv. 1066 Maistres vseþ a ȝerde, and so doþ he þat meteþ, kepeþ, and deleþ feeldes and þraisshynge flores [1495 de Worde thraisshynge floores].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 73/1 A Thrasher..with his Flail, or Thrashing Instrument raised over his head.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 267 No corn should be presented until the mill has acquired its proper momentum, the thrashing-motion, as it is termed.
1865 A. Cary Ballads & Lyrics 140 The..farmer-boy Who cut my name upon his thrashing-flail.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2557/1 Rollers which carry the grain in the straw from the feed-board to the thrashing cylinder.
1984 C. Kightly Country Voices v. 133 He had four whole sets of tackle—four engines, four thrashing-drums, four elevators and four chaff-cutters.
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