Definitionn. the act of separating grain from chaff
Last update: June 20, 2015
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Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds. [Please select]
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A winnowing process--Swartboy's thick lips acting as a fan--was next gone through; and the legs and wings were thus got rid of. [Please select]
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"The fowls of heaven Tam'd by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them." [Please select]
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His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine. [Please select]
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Fruition was finally complete: the last winnowing of the great harvest had been added to the pile. [Please select]
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She has come with a winnowing fan in her hand, and she will not stop till she has thoroughly purged her floor. [Please select]
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The dog ceased winnowing his ear with a hind foot and looked back at his master with much the same expression. [Please select]
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Then from over the dyke-top floated a noiseless, winnowing, sinister shape which seemed the very embodiment of the desolation. [Please select]
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Once only he awoke, when his ears caught the beat of a hawk's wings winnowing low over his retreat. [Please select]
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As he straightened up and glanced around he saw a large marsh-hawk winnowing low across the river. [Please select]
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We are constantly winnowing them out, purifying the ore, as it were, so that we are gradually getting rid of all the dross, and leaving nothing but sterling metal on the line. [Please select]
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