Winnowing is valid Scrabble Word

Is winnowing a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for WINNOWING in dictionary:

VERB:

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

NOUN:

the act of winnowing
of Winnew
The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
the act of separating grain from chaff

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to free grain from impurities

Words related to WINNOWING

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Words that contain WINNOWING

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How to use WINNOWING in a sentence

Harmonious delights of novel readers, they will not stand against the winnowing wind of deliberate criticism.
Outwardly they suggest a huge chaff pile, and the scattered grains of wheat hardly warrant the labor of winnowing.
By this winnowing process he had been enabled to select the more striking facts and conclusions.
The water which collected was thrown over the dam with a long-handled winnowing shovel.
His vigorous winnowing sent chaff to the winds, but not without some scattering of wheat.
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.
The winnowing is the fanning out of the straws from the kernels after the husks have been beaten off.
Harry stayed to talk to the man, and yet again at the barn door to speak to his men at work within with the winnowing machine.
From the barn comes the clatter of the winnowing machine, and the floor is covered with heaps of grain.
We had only to wait and catch the solid grains that now and then fell in the winnowing of that unending stream of chaff.

A mechanical carrier led thence to the threshing machines on the second floor, whence the grain descended through a winnowing fan.
On the morning in question, Mogue and Jerry Joyce had been engaged in winnowing a large quantity of wheat in the barn.
This is accomplished by a sorting and winnowing machine, which delivers by separate shoots the cleaned beans, graded according to size, and the dust and foreign matter.
But after some time they caught sight of a great, dark bird winnowing his way slowly above the tree tops.
Threshing and winnowing proceed in the manner represented on the monuments, and the methods of sowing and reaping have not changed.
Much care should be exercised in winnowing the seed.
Fan, purification of air and water symbolized by vase and winnowing, 412-m.
As soon as the crop in the first house has been threshed, the work of winnowing is commenced, and skilled hands thus engaged follow on in the track of the engine.
At an early hour the winnowing machine rumbled up the road to the square beside the chateau.
Across the northern end of the canon the winnowing heat waves died to the level of the ground.
No test could be more winnowing than that to which the Constitution was subjected during more than eighteen months before its adoption.
With his peculiar method of approaching problems there was bound to be an inordinate amount of chaff mixed with the grain, and he used no winnowing machine.
There was a thrashing machine, a winnowing machine, and circular saw for splitting trees into paling, and other contrivances of a like kind.
The third day it is passed through sieve baskets of different dimensions, then exposed to the winnowing machine, which separates the different kinds of green teas.
She has come with a winnowing fan in her hand, and she will not stop till she has thoroughly purged her floor.
The fern was dry now, after long winnowing by the wind that found its way into every crevice of this mountain summit.

Similar words containing WINNOW without suffix ing

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