ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. UNWINDOWED.)

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1552.  Huloet, Vnwinewed wheate, acerosum frumentum.

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1624.  Ussher, Serm., 48. The graine [is] the same, but winnowed now, unwinnowed then.

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1635.  Quarles, Embl., II. vii. 1. The world’s a heap, whose yet unwinnowed grain Is lodg’d with chaff.

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[1775.  Ash.]

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1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 273. The unwinnowed heap is becoming less.

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1860.  Swinburne, Queen-Mother, II. i. We are the chaff, The gross unwinnowed husks of your fanned wheat.

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1884.  Cent. Mag., Jan., 443/1. The unwinnowed sweepings of English haymows.

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