12 collocations for winnow

In time of peace, when sham reputations flourish and no real struggle winnows the chaff from the coin, mediocrity in performance is enough.

The sheaves were drawn to the threshing-floor on sleds, and we could see the husbandmen in the distance treading out and winnowing the grain.

Thy gratitude is not to be censured; it is rather worthy of thy origin and hopes; still, Donna Violetta, we should remember how difficult it is to winnow the truth from the chaff of imposition and legal subtlety, and, most of all, should a judge be certain before he gives his decree, that, in confirming the claims of one applicant, he does not defeat those of another.

The old Guinea man was winnowing wheat one day, with an old-fashioned fan (did any of you ever see one of these primitive machines for separating wheat from the chaff, used by our fathers before the fanning mill was invented?

R121029, 19Nov53, William Herman Leach (A) LEACOCK, GEORGE Winnowed wisdom.

Threshing and winnowing LII.

Laws, customs, and conventions were for the strengthening of men, to seed the select, to winnow the weak.

We have the garnered grain of Hebrew literature in our Biblea winnowed national library.

"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.

When his barns and garners are full, if it be a time of dearth, he will buy half a bushel in the market to serve his household, and winnows his corn in the night, lest, as the chaff thrown upon the water showed plenty in Egypt, so his carried by the wind should proclaim his abundance.

By whatever beings peopled, Worlds that fail to meet the test May like fruitless blossoms perish; God will winnow out the best.

" "Their wings are very different from Crows' wings," said Rap, as he watched them overhead, now winnowing the air with steady wing-beats, or circling on motionless pinionsnow poising in one spot for a minute by merely flapping the wings, and then dropping gracefully to float on the water.

12 collocations for  winnow