Thresh example sentences

Some of them bought farm machinery like tractors and threshers, which made ploughing and harvesting faster.Then on the night of 28 August 1830, a threshing machine of a farmer was destroyed by labourers in East Kent in England.There are certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weeding, threshing is done.This is carried out with the help of a machine called 'combine' which is in fact a combined harvester and thresher.Two new taxes – the fringe benefits tax (on those benefits enjoyed collectively by the employees) and on cash withdrawals from banks over a certain threshold in a day – were introduced in the budget for 2005-0 The share of direct taxes in gross tax revenue has increased from 1 1 per cent in 1990-91 to 4 3 per cent in 2003-0 There has been a reduction in the share of indirect tax revenue, falling from 7 4 per cent in 1990-91 to 5 9 per cent in 2003-0 The redistribution objective is sought to be achieved through progressive income taxation, in which higher the income, higher is the tax rate.For the poor the threshing machines had become a sign of bad times.I can make you a present of them myself, because they're mine! Your behaviour, Ivan assilevitch, is strange, to say the least! Up to this we have always thought of you as a good neighbour, a friend; last year we lent you our threshing-machine, although on that account we had to put off our own threshing till November, but you behave to us as if we were gypsies.But who were the Swing rioters? Why did they break threshing machines? What were they protesting against? To answer these questions, we need to trace the developments in English agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Fearing a shortage of labour, they began buying the new threshing machines that had come into the market.He uses tractors, seed drills, leveller, combined harvester and thresher to perform various agricultural operations.In the subsequent two years, riots spread over southern England and about 387 threshing machines were broken.