threshing

A country with a Supreme Court that believes threshing wheat is interstate commerce is not a republic.

The children had been led to the threshing floor and collectively given a final chance at redemption.

Milling, threshing, malting, fermentation are all traditional processing techniques which often make food easier and more nutritious to consume.

The threshing process was labor-intensive, and before the machines were introduced, it employed about 25% of all agricultural workers.

There are open design plans for homestead scale hand fed threshing and winnowing/seed cleaning machines.

So it's possible to think you're working on the heap, but you are actually threshing the runtime with expensive stack grow calls.

The riots were a protest against the introduction of threshing machines, which had been increasing since the end of the 18th century.

An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.

Which sets up for a SCO-Unix-style threshing of technical details for individual pieces.

> A country with a Supreme Court that believes threshing wheat is interstate commerce is not a republic.

Go to a threshing bee sometime: I've seen a tractor that runs on wood.

Who here is thrilled by, say, the threshing machine?

In that case the Supreme Court decided that threshing the wheat turned it into a form that might, hypothetically, sufficiently affect an undefined notional "interstate market".

You know, man-centuries were spent to build and "polish" such glorious (and surely working!), once respectable pieces of technology like threshing machine or steam engine, yet I somehow don't feel I miss them much.