A prepared hard level surface on which corn is threshed: cf. FLOOR sb.1 6.
α. 1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. clvi. (Bodl. MS.). Þe greyne þat is loweste in þe þresschinge floore is beste to sede. Ibid., clxxv. Feeldes and þresschinge flores.
1611. Bible, Gen. l. 10. They came to the threshing floore [1885 Revised threshing-floor] of Atad.
1839. Longfellow, Village Blacksmith, iv. The burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
β. 1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 278. In vain the Hind shall vex the Thrashing-floor, For empty Chaff and Straw will be thy Store.
1805. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 47. The size of the thrashing-floors of barns must vary according to circumstances.
