Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without chaff; free from worthless matter, rubbish, or refuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without chaff.
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- adjective Without
chaff .
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the week that the old machine poured out its chaffless wheat and the driver whistled in the centre of the treadmill Miss Chris appeared at the barn at noon each day to warn the hands against waste of time and to see that the mules were well watered.
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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In all the prairie there was no spot of vivid green, no oasis in the desert of tawny grasses and stunted brown cornstalks, and bare, hot stubble wherefrom even the poor crop of straw had been chaffless and mean.
Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain
Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain
Anti-Slavery Poems III. From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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