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  2. The Rice Thresher - Wikipedia

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    The Rice Thresher was the first student publication to be formed at the Rice Institute despite it appearing in the fourth academic year (1915–1916). In the fall of 1915, three literary societies - the Elizabeth Baldwin (female), the Owl (male), and the Riceonian (male) - elected three members each to serve on a committee to organize the paper.

  3. Threshing machine - Wikipedia

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    A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.

  4. Threshing - Wikipedia

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    An animal-powered thresher. Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. [1]

  5. Threshers, pedal powered - Wikipedia

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    An addition that can be built to make a thresher more efficient is to make it pedal-powered. This adds two more parts: A seat for the pedalling operator; Pedals that are attached to the crank with a chain and sprocket. The pedal-powered thresher developed by the Maya Pedal Project provides a good example of a built-in pedal system to a thresher ...

  6. Thresher - Wikipedia

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    USS Thresher, a Tambor-class submarine that served in World War II USS Thresher, the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines and was lost by accident on 10 April 1963. Threshers (First Quench Retailing), a UK off licence chain; Rice Thresher, the undergraduate student newspaper of Rice University

  7. Purity test - Wikipedia

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    The Rice Thresher student newspaper in 1924 published the results of an informal ten-question survey of 119 female undergraduate students at Rice University, with questions like "Have you ever been drunk?", "Did you ever dance conspicuously?", and "Have you ever done anything that you wouldn't tell your mother?"

  8. Combine harvester - Wikipedia

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    IH McCormick 141 self-propelled Harvester-Thresher c. 1954–57, shown in thresher mode, with harvester dismounted For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff ...

  9. Flail - Wikipedia

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    Flail may refer to: . Flail (tool), an agricultural implement for threshing Flail (weapon), a ball-on-a-chain bludgeon wielded with one hand by armored knights in single combat or medieval battles