winnowing-machine

We meet in the Chinese section with the original of our fanning-mill or winnowing-machine for grain.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

On most farms, he sows the seed in spring, superintends the field-workers in summer, tends the harvest-field and builds the stacks in autumn, and thrashes the corn with the mill, and cleans it with the winnowing-machine in winter.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

In one of the barns a winnowing-machine was working, sending out clouds of dust.

The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

At the threshing-mill, at the winnowing-machine, among the great rice stacks where they were packing and sorting and unloading from barges, the women were coarse, brutish, and densely ignorant; the men, in the main, the same.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

The questionable sound of Silas's loom, so unlike the natural cheerful trotting of the winnowing-machine, or the simpler rhythm of the flail, had a half-fearful fascination for the

Silas Marner George Eliot 1849

An effort was made to persuade the predecessor of the present Pontiff, Gregory XVI., to sanction the admission into Rome of a winnowing-machine.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

But without soul, alas what winnowing-machine in human elections, can be of avail?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

This then is the ballot-box and electoral winnowing-machine they have at St. Edmundsbury: a mind fixed on the Thrice Holy, an appeal to God on high to witness their meditation: by far the best, and indeed the only good electoral winnowing-machine, -- If men have souls in them.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

God on high to witness their meditation: by far the best, and indeed the only good electoral winnowing-machine, -- if men have souls in them.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Thus, then, have the St. Edmundsbury Monks, without express ballot-box or other good winnowing-machine, contrived to accomplish the most important social feat a body of men can do, to winnow out the man that is to govern them: and truly one sees not that, by any winnowing-machine whatever, they could have done it better.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838