How To Use Winnowing In A Sentence
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But they comforted themselves knowing they'd picked up a couple of governorships, winnowing the Republican lead to 24-23.
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After the 1150s, for example, there was a sudden and unexpected winnowing of the baronage.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The backyard lights look nice, and they'd better - I spent Saturday afternoon cannibalizing the entire system, harvesting good bulbs from bad lamps, winnowing 15 down to seven.
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There is even a sign in the tourist office - of all places - for a ‘hand-power riddling and winnowing combinated machine on rent.’
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For example, look at something like a winnowing machine which separates the corn from the chaff.
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A woman winnowing grain in the Virunga National Park.
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Seed extraction from the indehiscent pods is usually carried out by manual threshing. milling or maceration of the pods followed by winnowing and screening.
Chapter 8
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This involved process includes roasting the beans, winnowing the shells, and grinding the nibs to form chocolate liquor.
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The packing continues, as I once again go through the process of winnowing out the dross that I have collected over the past dozen or so years.
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One tray, the * - sele, was innovated at least as far back as the proto-Eastern-Savanna Bantu period when it designated a "winnowing basket," while the * - ungo "winnowing/sifting basket" may represent a PNECB innovation from a Mashariki verb that meant "to winnow.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.
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When discovered, her face and upper body were protected by a large woven winnowing basket.
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His distaste for hypotheses is the natural reaction of a man in possession of a far superior instrument for winnowing truth from error.
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These include the preparation of new fields, preparing existing fields, ploughing, planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, and storing the grain.
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The wind was winnowing her hair
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A winnowing machine stood close beside her, and to relieve her suspense she gently moved the handle; whereupon a cloud of wheat husks flew out into her face, and covered her clothes and bonnet, and stuck into the fur of her victorine.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country-dialect, we call a wecht; and go thro 'all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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The list was developed in a series of winnowing steps and overseen by economists, with the final panel including three Nobel laureates.
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A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
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In this steep economic downturn, markets are flushing out overcapacity, winnowing the weak from the strong.
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the winnowing was done by women
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We started winnowing legacy applications in connection with cutover to NMCI.
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Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They will have the chance to try reaping, stooking, threshing, winnowing and milling and, if they still have the energy, cooking as they take part in the entire harvest process from field to plate.
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Vanity of Notwithstanding all this denunciation, to the utter con - agrology. fufion of the aftrologers, there did not blow, during the whole time affigned, any wind to hinder the farmers from threfhing and winnowing their corn c.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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They may be imbricated and/or fragmented, suggesting winnowing and directed current stress.
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She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field
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Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which in our country dialect we call a wecht, and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.
Halloween
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In the countryside, her duties include caring for children, home, and garden, as well as transplanting, harvesting, and winnowing the rice.
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Days like this become a file of lingering images: women winnowing grain, children carrying almost their own weight in firewood, and meeting a Hindu sadhu on pilgrimage.
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The winnowing of the field to two has oddly helped his electability.
Times, Sunday Times
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He compares this to the winnowing of grains in a sieve, or the sorting of pebbles riffled by the tide: it is as if there were a kind of attraction of like to like.
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Any winnowing will help eliminate the me-too competitors that have sprung up and dampen any extreme valuations, the investors say.
Web Start-Ups Hit Cash Crunch
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Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country dialect, we call a wecht; and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Show producers are now winnowing the group to 12 hopefuls for America's first reality-TV primary.
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A 19th century hand-powered barn winnowing machine using volunteers' muscle power will then separate the grain from the chaff before milling, using machines from replica Stone Age querns to a Bamford mill powered by a 1930 tractor.
