fanning mill

American  

noun

Agriculture.

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

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Etymology

Origin of fanning mill

First recorded in 1740–50

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fanning mill

A hand-operated, wooden fanning mill with hurdle, screen, grader, and side spout.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker

E, a storage room for fanning mill, cutting-box, or other machinery, or implements, of same size and height as the granary.

From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

The fanning mill and piles of grain bags made fantastic shadows on the wall in the lantern's dim light, and seemed to his distorted fancy like dark and terrible spectres waiting to spring upon him.

From Sowing Seeds in Danny by Nellie L. McClung

Yearly Routine.—The yearly routine on the farm used to be about as follows: In early spring, before seeding time had come, all the seed wheat had to be put through the fanning mill.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy

Then the fanning mill came into play to clean the grain, after which it was carried to the granary, whence again it was taken either to the mill or to market.

From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Canniff Haight

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