It takes off the heads of wheat, and also threshes and cleans them as it goes along, and delivers the grain into bags at the side of the machine.
"Wheat Growing in Australia"
Australia Department of External Affairs
Either threshes out and hulls the rice, though the woman does more than half this work.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
The farmer who threshes his own corn and cuts his own firewood has very likely a piano in his family sitting-room, with the Atlantic Monthly on the table and Milton and Tennyson, Gibbon and Macaulay on his shelves, while his daughter, who has baked bread in the morning, is perhaps ready to paint on china in the afternoon.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske