winnowing

English

Verb

winnowing

1. present participle and gerund of winnow

Noun

winnowing (plural winnowings)

1. The act of separating chaff from grain.
   • 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)

     If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?

   • 2007 October 20, Thomas C. Cooper, “How Green Is My Garden?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device.

Derived terms

• winnowing basket
• winnowing fan
• winnowing-fan
• winnowing-fork
• winnowing fork
• winnowing machine
• winnowing shovel
• winnowing-shovel

 

Translations

act of separating chaff from grain

• Finnish: viskaaminen (fi)
• Macedonian: веење n (veenje)
• Persian: بوجاری (fa) (bojâri)
• Polish: wianie (pl) n
• Russian: веяние (ru) (vejanije)
• Sicilian: cèrniri (scn)
• Swedish: tröska (sv)