Definitionn. the act of separating grain from chaff
Last update: October 23, 2017
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Women are winnowing the wheat. [verb]
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He failed to winnow the sound historical material from that which was unsubstantiated or improbable. [Please select]
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Seasonal inflow may, for example, winnow out sediments from breccias and other areas, to redeposit them elsewhere. [verb]
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Sieyes, conscious that his political mechanism would merely winnow the air, until the profoundly able and forceful man at his side adapted it to the work of government, relapsed into silence; and his resignation of the office of consul, together with that of Ducos, was announced as imminent. [verb]
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Has he ploughed, sowed, reaped, mowed, winnowed, weeded. [verb]
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This very night he is going to winnow barley on the threshing-floor. [Please select]
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Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually. [Please select]
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The wings winnowed the air, and again he caught that peculiar whinny. [Please select]
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Each of them is a bed, with a mattress stuffed with chaff of winnowed corn. [Please select]
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