Winnow vs. Thresh

Winnowverb

To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Winnowverb

To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.

Winnowverb

To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

Winnowverb

To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Winnownoun

That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

Winnowverb

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.

Winnowverb

To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.

Winnowverb

To beat with wings, or as with wings.

Winnowverb

To separate chaff from grain.

Winnownoun

the act of separating grain from chaff;

Winnowverb

separate from chaff;

Winnowverb

blow on;

Winnowverb

treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;

Winnowverb

remove by a current of air;

Threshverb

To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.

Threshverb

To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

Threshverb

Same as Thrash.

Threshverb

move or stir about violently;

Threshverb

move like a flail; thresh about;

Threshverb

beat the seeds out of a grain

Threshverb

give a thrashing to; beat hard