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winnowing basket
n. A basket used to winnow rice or grain from the chaff.
Wikipedia
Winnowing Basket (Chinese constellation)
The Winnowing Basket mansion (箕宿, pinyin: Jī Xiù) is one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon.
Usage examples of "winnowing basket".
Before Bird of the Wood ever saw them, the priestesses placed them in a winnowing basket lined with blankets of featherwork and carried them to the bank of that same stream where Spring Wind had surprised her, and launching the basket in the water went away.
The resulting twins were placed in a winnowing basket and set afloat on the Tiber.