fanning mill

noun

, Agriculture.

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

First recorded in 1740–50

Sometimes we had a fanning mill, and how it would make my arms ache to turn the crank!

After 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.

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 wheat was poorly cleaned and had to be run through a fanning-mill several times.

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