Winnew

1. n. To beat with wings, or as with wings.
2. n. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
3. n. To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.