Definition of "winnowers" [winnowers]

• Plural form of winnower. (noun)

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• "Supported by Christian Aid partner, UBINIG, women from the countryside carrying earthen pots and bamboo winnowers were joined in Dhaka by garment workers, professionals, artists, singers and housewives."
• "But the Alaska I found that September six years ago was green—winnowers grew everywhere and whole mountain-sides were covered with forests of golden birch."
• "Of those crises, God's stern winnowers, from whose feet earth's chaff must fly;"