fanning mill

nounAgriculture.

a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.

Origin of fanning mill

First recorded in 1740–50

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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 Meeker
After a while we got a kind of fanning-mill, mower, reaper, etc.
A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States : From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 | George Tobias Flom
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 Garland
The 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. Badlam
The 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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