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  1. Agricultural process of separating cereal
  2. grains from the plant. Traditionally, the
  3. work was carried out by hand in winter months
  4. using the flail, a jointed beating stick.
  5. Today, threshing is done automatically inside
  6. the combine harvester at the time of cutting.
  7. From the late 18th century, through the work
  8. of Andrew Meikle and others, machine
  9. threshing slowly overtook the flail and made
  10. rapid progress after 1850.
  11.