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winnower|ˈwɪnəʊə(r)|
[f. winnow v. + -er1.]
1. One who winnows; a person engaged in winnowing; also fig. (cf. next 1 b).
1382[see winnow v. 1 b]. 1538Elyot, Ventilator, a vanner or wynnower of corne. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. B ij b, As a wynnower pourgeth the chaffe from the corne. c1611Chapman Iliad v. 497 As in sacred floores of barnes, vpon corne-winnowers flies The chaffe. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 209 The seed carried into an heap near the winnowers is shook up a little by a caver. 1849Whittier Leg. St. Mark xiv, Scattered..Like chaff before the winnower's fan. 1871R. B. Vaughan S. Thomas of Aquin II. 646 He did not take for granted, like the Sophist... He was a winnower and a sifter. 1915F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle ii. vii. 176 [War] is a great winnower of true men from shams.
2. An apparatus for winnowing; a winnowing-machine.
1605–6in Archdeaconry of Stow Wills 1603–6 lf. 110 (MS.) To my sonne Thomas Collinsonne my wyndyers wth the best of my tooles. 1862J. Wilson Farming 164 The winnowers used in such cases do not differ in construction from those worked by hand. 1883Cassell's Fam. Mag. Aug. 528/1 The beans [of coffee are] then put through a winnower. 1890Engineer 12 Dec. 472/1 Threshing machines are popular here, because the grain does not have to run through a winnower. |