ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. UNWINDOWED.)
1552. Huloet, Vnwinewed wheate, acerosum frumentum.
1624. Ussher, Serm., 48. The graine [is] the same, but winnowed now, unwinnowed then.
1635. Quarles, Embl., II. vii. 1. The worlds a heap, whose yet unwinnowed grain Is lodgd with chaff.
[1775. Ash.]
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 273. The unwinnowed heap is becoming less.
1860. Swinburne, Queen-Mother, II. i. We are the chaff, The gross unwinnowed husks of your fanned wheat.
1884. Cent. Mag., Jan., 443/1. The unwinnowed sweepings of English haymows.