1. winnowing - Noun
2. winnowing - Verb
of Winnew
The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
Source: Webster's dictionarythe winnowing was done by women Source: Internet
Examples include baskets, hats, fish traps, trays or winnowing mats and floor mats. Source: Internet
By the addition of rakes, or shakers, and two pairs of fanners, all driven by the same machinery, the different processes of thrashing, shaking, and winnowing are now all at once performed, and the grain immediately prepared for the public market. Source: Internet
According to My Zimbabwe online, the boy went on to say that they eat human liver and fly using a winnowing basket or at times ride on a donkey and open community member’s doors using their buttocks. Source: Internet
A winnowing basket is the most fragile of Zimbabwe’s basketry products which comprise tswanda, seme inchebethu, tundu, nhengwana. Source: Internet
To no small degree this is a lifeboat story, with the survivors winnowing down one by one. Source: Internet