单词 | winnowing-sheet |
释义 | > as lemmaswinnowing-sheet Also with qualifying word, as dusting-sheet, winnowing-sheet.extracted from sheetn.1winnowing-sheet attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), as winnowing operation, winnowing place; esp. in names of appliances for winnowing, as winnowing-basket, winnowing-cloth, winnowing-fan (see fan n.1 1), winnowing-machine, winnowing-mill, winnowing-sheet, winnowing-shovel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket fana800 windlec1175 weight1354 winnowing-cloth1375 winnow-sheetc1394 winnow-cloth1404 vanc1450 wind-cloth1500 wimsheet1532 winding-cloth1548 shaul1553 winnow1580 wan?1615 sail-fan1707 wind-screen1763 wind-sheet1891 1375 Doc. Doune Manor, Wandsworth (Westm. Chapter Munim.) 1 wyndwyngschete debilis. 1378 Doc. Doune Manor, Wandsworth (Westm. Chapter Munim.) 1 Wynfyn~schete de Canabis. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. iii. 12 He that is to cumme after me is strenger than Y... Whos wynwing cloth, or fan, in his hond. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke iii. 17 Whos wynewyng tool in his hond. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xv. 7 A wyndewynge instrument. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 15–18 He shall make clene the floore of his winnowyng place. 1710 O. Sansom Acct. Life 35 They took away my Winnowing-Fan, which was worth 8s. 1773 Pennsylvania Gaz. 3 Feb. (Suppl.) 2/3 A winnowing-mill. 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.), at Basket a Winnowing-Basket. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 31 Winnowing-Machines. Machines of this sort are in pretty general use, where thrashing mills..are not erected. 1862 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 8) vi. 243 The..man surceased his winnowing operations. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) viii. 253 The winnowing-mill of Time makes sad havoc with works considered immortal in their day. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) A windering sheet. < as lemmas |
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