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Battage à Fléau
Threshing with threshing flails

Threshing is the process of separating the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. It is the step in grain processing after harvesting and before winnowing. Early threshing methods removed some of the bran but modern methods do not.

Threshing may be done by beating the grain using a flail on a threshing floor. Another traditional method of threshing is to make donkeys or oxen walk in circles on the grain on a hard surface.

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  • Batteuse 1881

    An animal-powered thresher

  • Threshing-with-flail-RSJ

    Threshing with hand flails, Great Britain, c. 1750. Image from c. 1875.

  • Threshing place, Santorini, Greece

    Threshing floor, Santorini, Greece

  • Ludovic Basarab - La treierat

    Ludovic Bassarab's La treierat ("Threshing"), showing peasants in Romanian dress around a combine harvester

  • A farmer

    A farmer works on his field threshing with yolks in old age

  • Wheat Threshing Demo at Goessel Threshing Days in Goessel, Kansas

    Wheat Threshing Demo at Goessel Threshing Days in Goessel, Kansas, 2010.

  • Agriculture of Bangladesh 10

    Threshing of paddy by machine, Bangladesh

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