fanning mill

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noun Agriculture.

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

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Nearby words

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Origin of fanning mill

First recorded in 1740–50

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for fanning mill

The fanning-mill, porcelain and the cheng may be fairly credited to her.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878|Various
We did not see or hear of a threshing-machine or a fanning-mill in the whole region there, and doubt if there was one.
Across America|James F. Rusling
You're going to ask forgiveness for all your damn tricks, and pray like a fanning-mill for the spirit to come down.
Northern Lights, Complete|Gilbert Parker
He walked out into the barn, and leaned against the fanning-mill to think it all over.
Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6)|John McElroy

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