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How to use chaff in a sentence

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It's cheaper to disk my 2000 acres than to buy a straw chopper and chaff spreader for my combine.
In the process of making fine mealie-meal, Maize that is washed clean is put aside, while coarse Bran chaff is separated out.
They processed the grain there using a threshing sled to separate the stalks or chaff from the grain.
The mixture of grain, chaff and husks is placed on a flat or shallow basket and held shoulder high.
To keep the radiator from plugging up with seeds and chaff, we wrapped it and the grill with window screen.
The village girls spit out the chaff as they winnow with wooden forks and sing about their dowry jewels.
He would sometime be given a job bagging and clearing chaff on a threshing day.
Green stems and leaves add moisture to the threshed grain and prevent clean separation of the grain and chaff.
If there are weed seeds, weed debris, chaff or non-grain material, clean the grain before putting it into the bins.
Doing this will sort the wheat from the chaff and will save time, effort and tears.
To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
In a world of increasing information overload the process of sorting wheat from chaff becomes ever more daunting.
There was a prickly weed known as cockspurs which grew amid the wheat crop and those handling hay at chaff cutting had to wear leather gloves.
The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.
To cut the cost, savvy bosses burnt firewood, chaff and coal cinders in addition to the coal briquettes and balls.
Radar sensitive chaff in the chemical mixture permits tracking of chemical agent dispersal patterns in the atmosphere.
It is essentially a modified hot-air popcorn popper, with an added nifty chamber which collects the chaff from the coffee beans as they roast.
The defensive aids suite could include a radar warner, missile launch and approach warner, and chaff and flare decoy dispensers.
The movement required to tramp the rice and free the chaff is called jigging.
The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again.
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As soon as the chaff was removed she emptied the rice into her basket and covered it with the winnower.
On the spot which the thorns usurped, the reaper gathers only straw and chaff.
Receptacle convex to globose, beset with bristle-like or subulate or short and soft chaff.
All his optimism failed to thresh a grain of hope from the chaff of his postulations.
A cry of surprise was raised, and drowned in a volley of ribald inquiry and chaff.
A great deal of chaff went on between Captain Davis and the captain of the menhaden steamer.
This accomplished, the grain is freed from chaff by tossing it in a winnower.
These had lived there so long as to be able to winnow the chaff and throw the refuse off.
Receptacle convex to subulate, chaffy, the scarious chaff not embracing the smooth dorsally compressed achenes.
When you try to chaff people, it is like an elephant dancing on eggshell china.
We've whaled all the chaff out of the old straw, but it doesn't do any good.
The pods are first picked by hand from the vines, and then cleaned in a fanning mill to clear them of dust and chaff.
At the end of spring the diggers flock back out of the Desert and exchange chaff and flews in the gorgeous verandahs.
There is a shot-putter, stopping a moment to chaff with a friend, stripped to the waist, his shirt in his hand.
But the grain of wheat in his bushel of chaff was that Miss Hazelwood seemed to be fascinated by Braybridge from the first.
Sometimes a draft of cold air was applied to the cooling drums, and the dirt and chaff blown through the wire cloth.
This is the sower, but the grain is in this instance only chaff.
He collected what he wanted grain by grain from bushels of chaff.
Wilson winced under this nagging and not very courteous chaff, and the twins suffered with him and for him.
But he determined to chaff Fix, when he had the chance, with mysterious allusions, which, however, need not betray his real suspicions.
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