In biblical times, wheat separation was normally performed by hand. The workers would beat on the harvested wheat with sticks, branches, or a similar tool, then throw it into the air on a windy day to allow the chaff (outer hulls) to blow away.
The cast of The Wheat and the Chaff - 2008 includes: Bryan Bachar as Bruce Robin Breault as Gerald
That is a euphemism meaning 'to sort the good from the bad'. To make flour, etc. the chaff, which is the inedible (for humans) shell of the wheat seed, must be removed and discarded from the raw, bulk wheat before it can be processed.
Chaff is what is left of wheat fruit after the removal of the kernals. Chaff can be used, in small quantities, mixed in with horse feed to keep the horse from eating to quickly.
The cast of The Wheat and the Chaff - 1916 includes: Adelaide Bronti Allan Forrest George Routh Cecil Van Auker
Wheat grains are heavier and more aerodynamic than chaff, so they will typically travel further on the wind. Chaff is lighter and less dense, making it more susceptible to being carried away by the wind.
There are several options: * My uncle always called them the casts. * Chaff. As in "Separate the wheat from the chaff."
Separating wheat from chaff.
the Chaff, i believe
Chaff is the husk or material covering the seed. Hull, etc. Bits and pieces that are lighter than the seed and carried away by a sifting process. It means the same in the Bible. Most of the time, though, Bible writers were using it as an analogy. That is, they were making a comparison between someone's or some other nation's actions to chaff blowing away in the wind. In Bible times, chaff was separated from the grain by tossing the threshed heads into the air when there was a breeze, and allowing the wind to separate the chaff and grain. It's a practice still followed in the undeveloped and sometimes developing world.
That would be akin to asking if neurology or radiology is evil. In every profession on this earth, there are good practitioners, along with some not so good practitioners. It is important to try to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
the use of bible in grain of wheat
Winnow means to separate grain from chaff using the wind, as in "The farmer winnowed his wheat."