Machines that separate, clean or store a crop after it leaves the field, including the cotton gin, the grain elevator and the threshing machine. Belongs here: any implement whose job begins after the crop is cut or picked, working the harvested material rather than the standing crop. Does not belong here: a machine that cuts or gathers the standing crop itself, grouped under Mechanized Harvesting Implements.
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1. Wikipedia: Threshing machine
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Early threshing machines were hand-fed and horse-powered.
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