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What does winnowed mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of winnow
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After all the grain have been removed from the mahangu heads this grain must be winnowed to remove the husks.
Such sediments and ichnofacies suggest lag deposits winnowed in proximal storm-generated beds.
Note: Some processors prefer to receive berries that have not been winnowed, especially when the fruit travels a great distance.
Now that most of the chaff has been winnowed I hope to be able to concentrate on the wheat.
It was in effect a palimpsest of the best of previous translations, corrected and winnowed through almost a hundred years of development.
But, before being gathered, the good seed must be winnowed, in order to separate it from the chaff, dust, and other impurities.

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