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Winnowing vs Seiving - What's the difference?

winnowing | seiving |

winnowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of separating chaff from grain.
  • * (William Bridge)
    • 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?
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 20, author=Thomas C. Cooper, title=How Green Is My Garden?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device. }}

    seiving

    Not English

    Seiving has no English definition. It may be misspelled.