winnowing machine

English

winnowing machine (plural winnowing machines)

A machine which winnows grain
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. VIII, The Election
  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 […] Ballot-boxes, Reform Bills, winnowing-machines: all these are good, or are not so good; — alas, brethren, how can these, I say, be other than inadequate, be other than failures, melancholy to behold?

单词	winnowing machine
释义	winnowing machine English Noun winnowing machine (plural winnowing machines) A machine which winnows grain 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. VIII, The Election 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 […] Ballot-boxes, Reform Bills, winnowing-machines: all these are good, or are not so good; — alas, brethren, how can these, I say, be other than inadequate, be other than failures, melancholy to behold?
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