Forms: see WINNOW v. and CLOTH. A winnowing-sheet.
α. 1404. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 398. 1 wyndowclath.
1547. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 20/2, note. Ane windo clath contenand 12 ellis.
1599. in Antiquary, XXXII. 243. One window cloth.
1894. Northumbld. Gloss., Winda-claith, winnowing cloth; now called a barn-sheet.
β. 1552. Huloet, Wynew cloth, ventilabrum.
1588–9. Extr. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876), I. 129. Item, ane wonnow clayth, ane seif, ane sek, ane riddill, price xl s.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 262. Vnder her head a hard Oken-logge, with the Winnow-cloth, and the one end of an old Hop-bagge, cast ouer in steed of a Couerlet.
1790. Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Winner-cloth, a large cloth on which corn is dighted or winnowed.
