fanning mill
nounAgriculture.
a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
Origin of fanning mill
1First recorded in 1740–50
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How to use fanning mill in a sentence
Sometimes we had a fanning mill, and how it would make my arms ache to turn the crank!
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerAfter a while we got a kind of fanning-mill, mower, reaper, etc.
A part of my duty was to watch the fanning mill (in the high cupola) in order that the sieves should not clog.
A Son of the Middle Border | Hamlin GarlandThe pods are first picked by hand from the vines, and then cleaned in a fanning mill to clear them of dust and chaff.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. BadlamThe wheat was poorly cleaned and had to be run through a fanning-mill several times.
Rural Life and the Rural School | Joseph Kennedy
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