threshing floor

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threshing floor - a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain

area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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threshing floor

n → Dreschboden m, → Tenne f

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805-809) Look about you very carefully and throw out Demeter's holy grain upon the well-rolled (43) threshing floor on the seventh of the mid-month.

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The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.

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Because may be when they came she'd be hackling flax or threshing on the threshing floor, and they'd be ashamed to see her, and she'd laugh, or resent the present."