Meanings
- not comparableNot winnowed.
While stooping over to fill his fan with unwinnowed grain, the buck, taking advantage of his position, came like a catapult against him, and sent him like a ball from a Paixhan gun, head foremost into the chaff.
1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes1 more example
A few miles away the loud Niagara of London runs swift, and the air vibrates with all the tumult of the strenuous life of man; but here the air is dead, unwinnowed by any clamorous wind, unshaken by any planetary motion.
1907, William J. Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life
Origin
Translations
Greek αλίχνιστος
- αλίχνιστος (alíchnistos)Translations
Cite this entry
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