Read full poem →Have you heard my threshing crews yelling in the chaff
of a strawpile and the running wheat of the wagon-
Dictionary Entry
The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
In a Sentence
“To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “chaff”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →letters, we could sift here and there a kernel from the mass of
chaff. Coleridge’s youthful efforts give no promise whatever of
that poetical genius which produced at once the wildest,
Read full poem →At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain.
Read full poem →Scatter all thy vessels
As the wind the chaff."
Read full poem →And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Read full poem →And what he takes in hand shall prosper all. 10
Not so the wicked, but as chaff which fann'd
The wind drives, so the wicked shall not stand
Read full poem →And the sad world began,
But straws the wheat and saves the chaff
With a most evil fan.
Read full poem →And the sad world began,
But straws the wheat and saves the chaff
With a most evil fan.
Read full poem →Thou dost mock at fate and care,
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
When the fierce northwestern blast