单词 | threshing sled |
释义 | > as lemmasthreshing sled threshing sled n. now chiefly historical a sledge-like wooden implement having a flat surface set with small pieces of iron or sharp stone, used (esp. in North Africa and the Middle East) for crushing and separating grain; = threshing sledge n.Cf. slightly earlier thrashing-sled in quot. 1875 (cf. thrashing n. 1a). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1068/1 The thrashing-sled of the Egyptians and Syrians, the tribulum of the Romans, may have been used for dragging over the ground to cover seed, but it does not so appear.] 1876 Friends' Intelligencer 2 Sept. 443/1 The sheaves are laid down in proper position, and an ox harnessed to the threshing sled. 1966 Iran 4 30 The only bovines seen by me were two oxen driving a threshing sled. 2012 W. G. Dever Lives Ordinary People in Anc. Israel vi. 173 Since these tools—plows, hoes, rakes, threshing sleds, and the like—were made mostly of wood, they have not survived the ravages of time. < as lemmas |
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