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Authors: Reinier de Blois
Part of speech: nsf
Semantic domains: Tools (001004001017)
Core domains: Crafts (027); Agriculture (007)
Definition: = wooden implement with a long, flat blade attached to a long handle, ► for throwing threshed grain into the air so that the wind might separate the straw and chaff from the grain; ≈ winnowing is often used as a figure of speech to denote the process of distinguishing between good and bad
Further resources: Realia:1.1.8.3