Threshing machine
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A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. Before such machines wer
A threshing machine in operation
1875 advertising poster for threshing (thrashing) machine.
1881 animal powered threshing machine
Open-air museum in Saint-Hubert, Belgium.
Flail (tool)
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A flail is an agricultural hand tool used for threshing, the process of separating grains from their husks. It can also be used for military purposes being made in the same way as a threshing-flail bu
Threshing machine
…the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. Before such machines were developed, threshing was done by hand with flails: such hand threshing was very laborious and time-consuming, taking about one-quarter of agricultural labour by the 18th century. Mechanization of this…
Flails used in Britain
17th century drawing of a peasant revolt, showing a man swining a flail
Renaissance era combat manual featuring spiked flails
Mine flail mounted on a M4 Sherman tank