Word Finder - winnowing

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To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

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To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.

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They winnowed the field to twelve.

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To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

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To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

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The act of separating chaff from grain.

The shells and kernels are then separated in a winnowing machine.

This caused various lateral and contrary movements, resulting in a whirling movement (Slvn) resembling the rotation of Anaxagoras, whereby similar atoms were brought together (as in the winnowing of grain) and united to form larger bodies and worlds.

The methods of threshing and winnowing were the same as those in use in ancient Egypt.

At harvest-time the produce is placed in the barns of the lessor, who first deducts 25% as premium, then 16% for battiteria (the difference between corn before and after winnowing), then deducts a proportion for rent and subsidies, so that the portion retained by the actual tiller of the soil is extremely meagre.

The word Vanellus is from vannus, the fan used for winnowing corn, and refers to the audible beating of the bird's wings.

Winnowing is performed by throwing up the grain on windy days.

Such a situation may also provide more of a breeze, for comfort and for winnowing grain on the threshing floors.

Winnowing down the packet stream as soon as possible greatly abets monitoring at high speeds without losing packets.

The grain was separated from the chaff using the wind or a winnowing machine.

Try a few different methods before winnowing a full batch of beans.

Winnowing is the process of removing the husks from the cocoa bean.

Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds.

Shovel-boards, to hold in right (93) or left hand for scraping up the grain in winnowing, are usual in the XVIIIth Dynasty, and are figured in use in the Old Kingdom Pruning knives with curved blades (94) are Italic, and were made of iron by the Romans.

Show me any mode for winnowing the chaff from the corn.

A winnowing fork is a long handled tool with an array of wooden prongs fanning out at one end.

Only the sincere in heart can endure Christ 's winnowing fan.

Write down every idea your team has and then start winnowing down the list by eliminating any impractical (because of cost or for other reasons) ideas.