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Word of the Day: Winnow
I used the word winnow to explain the proverb separate the wheat from the chaff.
Winnowing is a way of separating edible rice or wheat seeds from their inedible coverings or chaff.
For this process, farmers traditionally used a woven scoop, a tool designed to gently toss the rice or wheat into the air.
The wind would blow away the lighter chaff or inedible parts, and only the edible seeds would fall into the scoop again.
The farmers separated the wheat from the chaff by winnowing.
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