Winnowed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WINNOWED in dictionary:

VERB:
• WINNOW, to separate chaff from grain
• blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff
• remove (chaff) from grain
• remove (people or things) from a group until only the best ones are left
• find or identify (a valuable or useful part of something)
• (of the wind) blow
• (of a bird) fan (the air) with its wings
PREPOSITION:
• of Winnew
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to free grain from impurities

Words related to WINNOWED

winnow12 winnowing16 winnows13

Words that contain WINNOWED

unwinnowed17

How to use WINNOWED in a sentence

• It convinced them that there was a hard and perhaps long task ahead of them, and that they could not expect to find their treasure winnowed in yellow piles for them.
• And the grain had to be winnowed, or passed through a fan afterward to separate it from the chaff.
• On the way he laid his plans of battle, winnowed the chaff from the grain.
• The baffled owl, not daring to come so near the hated man-creatures, winnowed off in ghostly silence.
• CHAPTER XIV BRETON FINDS A MARKER FOR HIS COPY OF RABELAIS After the calm the storm came, after the storm the rough winds and winnowed skies.
• Let us put this million of women, already winnowed by our fan, through another examination.
• Oats grow too much to straw, and are generally cut in the slot blade, winnowed, and carted to Melbourne and sold for hay.
• Gust after gust of icy air swept down on his head, as if winnowed by frozen wings.
• The seed should be carefully winnowed before putting it on the market.
• I had not winnowed the last weight clear out, and the moon was shining bright upon the floor, when in stalked the presence of my dear Simon Glendinning, that is now happy.
• It was then considered to be sufficiently winnowed, and fit to be sent to the mill.
• A single gull winnowed across the vision calling a wistful question, and from the Lookout the tattered flag flung itself out on the breeze as if in farewell.
• The countryman had his corn thrashed, winnowed it, put in into sacks, and went with it to market.
• Out of so much musical chaff he winnowed only now and then a grain of real ability.
• The weak, the humble, the sacrificing must be winnowed from among them.
• The wings winnowed the air, and again he caught that peculiar whinny.
• Not so long ago grain cut in the field was threshed, winnowed, shelled, made into flour, and baked on the farm, as it still is in many places.
• A sifting process went on in the churches, by which the unimportant and objectionable writings were gradually winnowed out and the wheat retained.
• They then pass over the dried berries a heavy roller, to break the envelopes, which are afterwards winnowed away with a fan.
• After the rice is thus cleared of the husks, it is again winnowed, when it is fit for exportation.
• One gentleman, in 1840, planted not quite half an acre with this seed, which yielded forty-nine and a half bushels of clean winnowed rice.
• Once there was a man, and he winnowed a whole peck of chaff, and got only three good solid grains from it, and yet he was glad to have so much.
• Even what fell through the sieve when wheat was winnowed, which ought to have been given to anybody, was carefully scraped up, and, dirty as it was, sold.

Similar words containing WINNOW without suffix ed

winnow12 winnows13 winnower14 winnowers15 winnowing16 unwinnowed17 winnowings17

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