0 present participle of thresh
1 to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool
Nevertheless, there is also a demand for continuous labour, working with threshing, supplementary cattle raising and dairy farming, various maintenance tasks, and the like.
Also, heaping panicles at a common threshing point for days before threshing may result in the shedding and loss of grains.
Not the least important was the so-called purakalam right of gleaning on the threshing floor which gave occasion to several conflicts.
The stover and the threshing residues were processed and analysed separately, and are referred to collectively as 'crop residues'.
Harvesting and threshing are carried out as one activity, mostly on a contract basis, with the contractors receiving 20% of the output.
Farmers were also asked the length of time they kept panicles in the field before threshing and how they were kept.
The group would visit each member's farm and do whatever work needed to be done : threshing, spreading manure and planting.
Others had been genuinely under the impression that it was not illegal to break threshing-machines.
