"winnowing" meaning in English

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          "word": "winnowing basket"
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          "word": "winnowing fan"
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          "word": "winnowing-fork"
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          "text": "If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?"
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          "text": "At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device.",
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          "sense": "act of separating chaff from grain",
          "word": "viskaaminen"
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          "word": "веяние"
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