† winnow-sheetn.
Obsolete.
A winnowing-sheet.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket
fana800
windlec1175
weight1354
winnowing-cloth1375
winnow-sheetc1394
winnow-cloth1404
vanc1450
wind-cloth1500
wimsheet1532
winding-cloth1548
shaul1553
winnow1580
wan?1615
sail-fan1707
wind-screen1763
wind-sheet1891
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 435 His wijf walked him wiþ..In a cutted cote..Wrapped in a wynwe schete to weren hire fro weders.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 618/38 Ventilabrum.., a wynue [printed wynne] shete.
1577 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) App. 154 16 sacks & two window sheets.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 74/1 To make Wind with a Winnow sheet.
1808 Sporting Mag. 31 113 Covered with a winnow-sheet.
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