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winnowing machines

winnowing machines is the plural of winnowing machine.

Meaning of winnowing machine

Noun

winnowing machine (plural winnowing machines)

  1. A machine which winnows grain.
    • Thus, then, have the St. Edmundsbury Monks, without express ballot-box or other good winnowing-machine, contrived to accomplish the most important social feat a body of men can do, to winnow out the man that is to govern them […] Ballot-boxes, Reform Bills, winnowing-machines: all these are good...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, The Election”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
    Synonyms:
    fanning mill

Questions about winnowing machines

What is winnowing machines the plural of?
Winnowing machines is the plural of winnowing machine.

Words near winnowing machines in the dictionary

  1. winnowing fans
  2. winnowing fork
  3. winnowing forks
  4. winnowing grain from chaff
  5. winnowing machine
  6. winnowing machines
  7. winnowing mill
  8. winnowing mills
  9. winnowing shovel
  10. winnowing shovels
  11. winnowing the wheat from the chaff

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