[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That winnows, in various senses of the verb.
1651. J. Reading, Guide to Holy City, 347. Tentation only burneth out the drosse: it is as a winnowing winde.
1651. Rutherford, Lett. to Lady Kenmure, 28 Sept. We are fallen in winnowing & trying times.
1793. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Ode to Innoc., Wks. 1812, III. 223. The winnowing Butterfly with painted wing.
1820. Keats, Autumn, ii. Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind.
1865. Swinburne, Poems & Ball., Faustine, 110. After change of soaring feather And winnowing fin.
Hence Winnowingly adv.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1859), 265. The wing of the slow-sailing owl flitted winnowingly across.
