An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc.
The large winnowing tray employed universally by the Igorot is said to be made nowhere in the vicinity except in Samoki and Kamyu.
The work of threshing, hulling, and winnowing usually falls to the women and girls, but is sometimes performed by the men when their women are preoccupied.
Into the bottom of this closed pocket the men poked a hole with a long stick, letting a pint or more of the white pupae run out on a winnowingtray on the earth.
The largewinnowing tray, lig-o', shown bottom up in Pl.
One or two mortarsful is thus threshed and put aside on a winnowing tray.
There are two sizes ofwinnowing trays, both of which are employed everywhere in the area.
Bring the winnowing tray to serve the food; and bring the wisp of palay straw to sweep away the many words spoken near us.
The mother winnowed it clean, and put it in her basket, covering it up with the winnowing tray.
To manufacture ta-pu-i the rice is cooked and then spread on a winnowing tray until it is cold.
Twice a man went through the crowd with a large winnowing tray of cooked carabao hide cut in little blocks.
When morning has begun To gild the mountain's brow, How beautiful it is to see thee soar so blest, Winnowing thy russet wings above thy twitchy nest.
I then went to the next cabin; most of the way very rocky, but there the country more open; the owner was winnowing wheat, by the wind without any fan.
A healthy opposition is the winnowing fan that separates the politician's chaff from the patriot's wheat, presenting the most desirable of the substantial element needed.
A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
An instrument forwinnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.
Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
So other things demand other planting conditions, like the osiers from which you derive your material for making basket ware, for wagon frames, winnowing baskets and grape hampers.
Footnote 100: Between harvests the winnowing basket is quite generally used in Italy today for a cradle, as it was from the beginning of time, for there is an ancient gem representing the infant Bacchus asleep in a winnowing basket.
It is a similar winnowing process, through which we see our prophet's thoughts pass with regard to Israel.
In modern history we have two familiar illustrations of this process of winnowing and idealising a people in the light of their destiny, which may prepare us for the more obscure instance of it in our prophecy.
The shells of the beans separated by the winnowingprocess contain theobromine, and their infusion with water is sometimes used as a substitute for coffee, under the name "miserabile.
Further rubbing and winnowing removes the silver skin, and the beans are left in the condition of ordinary unroasted coffee.
He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.
A wayfarer will meet you and will say it must be a winnowing shovel that you have got upon your shoulder; on this you must fix the oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Neptune.
I was fortunate enough to meet in Sicily a woman carrying one of these winnowing shovels; it was not much shorter than an oar, and I was able at once to see what the writer of the "Odyssey" intended.
It would be impossible to express more clearly the identification of the woman with the corn than by this graphic imitation of threshing andwinnowing her.
At the end of August the Mirasans, especially those of the Snake tribe, make a snake of dough which they paint black and red, and place on a winnowing basket.
When rain fails, women of the caste will catch a frog and tie it alive to a new winnowing fan made of bamboo.
Further, the story that his mangled remains were scattered up and down the land and buried in different places may be a mythical way of expressing either the sowing or the winnowing of the grain.
They were made of welts or ropes of twisted straw, as were the heavy winnowing skepes once used forwinnowing grain.
I saw a man last autumn, a giant in stature, standing in a dull light on the crown of a hill winnowingwheat in one of these great skepes with an indescribably free and noble gesture.
On the steep north slope of the top he had found a safe spot between two jutting crags, and, wrapping himself in his blanket as the sun went down behind the hill of the sea, had waited for the winnowing of the small mysterious wings.
Then take that instrument used in winnowingthe corn, which in our country dialect we call a "wecht," and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.
Yet because the churches are also full of those who shall be separated by the winnowing as in the threshing-floor, the glory of this house is not so apparent now as it shall be when every one who is there shall be there always.
Similarly, we may say that grain is selected from chaff by the wind in the process of winnowing corn.
There are a few winnowing machines and it is hoped that they will come into more general use as soon as they can be imported.
There is a small export of linseed, but owing to the primitive methods of winnowing and cleaning it does not fetch the best price.
It was revelling in the dust storm which winnowing produces, and the ketchuda suggested to me to camp at some distance beyond it, on a small triangular meadow below a large irrigation stream.
The dustiness of this winnowing process is indescribable.
They use a winnowing fan and grains of rice in doing this, and prophesy good or evil, according to the number of grains found on the fan.
Depositing a winnowing tray thereon, the bride pours the rice which has been given to her on it.
When rain fails, the Kapu females catch hold of a frog, and tie it alive to a new winnowing fan made of bamboo.
At the conclusion of the worship, the food is placed on new winnowing trays provided for the purpose, and given to the relations, who place the winnows on the roof of the house till the following day, when the food is eaten.
At the village all the population was cheerfully employed in threshing or winnowing the harvest, and their flocks crouched in the shade of the trees.
If the winnowing fan of this principle were applied to our decorous congregations, who dress their bodies for church much more carefully than they do their souls, what a cloud of chaff would fly off!
What a winnowing of chaff from wheat there would be, if that test could visibly separate the mass which is gathered on His threshing-floor, the Church!
What a deal of seeming wheat would turn out to be chaff if that winnowingfan which is in Christ's hand were applied to it!
Then one night when Boaz was to have a winnowing of barley, Naomi told Ruth to make herself ready, putting on her best clothing, and to go to the winnowing and the feast and to ask Boaz what she should do.
The winnowing is the fanning out of the straws from the kernels after the husks have been beaten off.
