Crossword-Solution: WINNOW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Winnow | v. i. | To separate chaff from grain. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “WINNOW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| dehusk grain using air currents | 1 answer |
| Separate the chaff. | 1 answer |
| Separate grain and chaff | 1 answer |
| Separate chaff from grain | 1 answer |
| Reduce to only the best | 1 answer |
| Free grain from chaff | 1 answer |
| Blow off chaff. | 1 answer |
| Separate grain from chaff | 2 answers |
| Narrow down | 2 answers |
| Cull out | 2 answers |
| Sift (through) | 5 answers |
| Chaff Free grain from | 10 answers |
| chaff wheat | 10 answers |
| FILTER, type of | 15 answers |
| Cull | 18 answers |
| Blow away | 19 answers |
| Glean | 20 answers |
| Expiate | 35 answers |
| sieve | 42 answers |
| sift | 53 answers |
| Fan | 63 answers |
| Separate | 95 answers |
| Perfect | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINNOW (5)
Distinct in clearest air is Nisus seen Towering, and Scylla for the purple lock Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wings The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable, Nisus with mighty whirr through heaven pursues; Where Nisus heavenward soareth, there her wings Clutch as she flies, the light air winnowing still.
And there let Julianus Apostata dig him up and let burn his bones (for he was at that time emperor) and let winnow the ashes in the wind.
These I heated before the fire, as well as I could, and rubbed them till the husks came off, which I made a shift to winnow from the grain.
See now and judge! In the village of Isser Jang, on the road to Montgomery, there be four Changar women who winnow corn--some seventy bushels a year.
Thence came the honeyed corner at his lips, The conquering smile wherein his spirit sails Calm as the God who the white sea-wave whips, Yet full of speech and intershifting tales, Close mirrors of us: thence had he the laugh We feel is thine: broad as ten thousand beeves At pasture! thence thy songs, that winnow chaff From grain, bid sick Philosophy’s last leaves Whirl, if they have no response—they enforced To fatten Earth when from her soul divorced.
Quotes with WINNOW (3)
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole wi…
That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime Left by men-slugs and human serpentry, Have been content to let occasion die, Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.
The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).