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Definition of Sifting
1. Noun. The act of separating grain from chaff. "The winnowing was done by women"
Definition of Sifting
1. Verb. (present participle of sift) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sifting
1. the work of a sifter [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sifting
Literary usage of Sifting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1849)
"A drug-grinding room usually contains a pair of stones (а а), а set of five or
six stampers such as bb, and a sifting apparatus (c). assigned to the inner ..."
2. Christian Reconstruction in the South by Harlan Paul Douglass (1909)
"THE sifting OF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT I. sifting THE HEARTS OF MEN HOW shall a dominant
social group respond to the partial sifting of any backward population ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"sifting each claim we therefore bode, and made About the streets our offerings
to the gods ; The third day after, they with all their host, Horses and men ..."
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