27. The husbandman uses the same discretion in threshing. The dill ("fitches") and cummin, leguminous and tender grains, are beaten out, not as wheat, c., with the heavy corn-drag ("threshing instrument"), but with "a staff" heavy instruments would crush and injure the seed. cart wheel —two iron wheels armed with iron teeth, like a saw, joined together by a wooden axle. The "corn-drag" was made of three or four wooden cylinders, armed with iron teeth or flint stones fixed underneath, and joined like a sledge. Both instruments cut the straw for fodder as well as separated the corn. staff —used also where they had but a small quantity of corn; the flail ( :- ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-28" class="com-number"
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