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unˈwinnowed, ppl. a. (un-1 8. Cf. unwindowed.)
1552Huloet, Vnwinewed wheate, acerosum frumentum. 1624Ussher Serm. 48 The graine [is] the same, but winnowed now, unwinnowed then. 1635Quarles Embl. ii. vii. 1 The world's a heap, whose yet unwinnowed grain Is lodg'd with chaff. [1775Ash.] 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 273 The unwinnowed heap is becoming less. 1860Swinburne Queen-Mother ii. i, We are the chaff, The gross un⁓winnowed husks of your fanned wheat. 1884Cent. Mag. Jan. 443/1 The unwinnowed sweepings of English haymows. |