They were used to thresh the grain from the inedible chaff. A flail was used to thresh wheat, not implement corporal punishment. The weapon was inspired by the farmer's flail to thresh rice with. The combined header-harvester added the winnower to thresh the grain from the heads. Combine harvesters, so called because they both harvest and thresh the crop, are common. The church could have also been used as a place to thresh and store grain. Both sexes transplant, harvest, thresh, and carry rice. James Frazer compiled numerous ceremonies of harvest and thresh, that centered on a "Cereal Spirit". They also use their horns to thresh and throw loose earth on themselves. Thresh, District 11's male tribute, overhears and kills Clove. The Posleen word for any other species is "thresh", which literally translates to "food". The raised platform is made of wood and the roof is made of thresh.