0 present participle of winnow
1 to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings) from grain before it can be used as food
A list of 15 applicants has been winnowed down to three.
a winnowing process
Flooring the barrancos are boulder and cobble gravel lags due to the winnowing of finer material.
Quantities of cereals, pulses, and residues produced on each plot were weighed after threshing and winnowing at the end of the season.
It is my impression that less time was spent on such activities as winnowing, levigating, and burnishing.
In this region, women are also more involved in threshing and winnowing small grains, and (together with their male partners) in planting, harvesting and threshing.
Yet winnowing frequently occurs without the presence of a classic momentum candidate.
We postulate that this process reflects the further winnowing of the multiple-problem group from less deviant groups of males during adolescence.
There is, in short, no evidence of a winnowing process, hence little evidence of a talent-matching process.
Routes were distributed where they would be most profitable, winnowing the department's deficit so that it could credibly take other policy initiatives to the public.
