fannern.
1. One who fans.† a. One who winnows grain with a fan. Obs.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > winnower
winnowsterc1325
winnowera1382
fanner?1518
vanner1552
winder?1570
dighter?1611
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj, Repers, faners, and horners.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xiii. 8. 600 Good corn..falls low at the feet of the Fanner.
b. One who fans (himself or another person) with a fan.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fanning > one who
fanner1888
1888 Bow-Bells Weekly 18 May The present Emperor of China when he was a baby had..twenty-five fanners.
1890 Daily News 15 Feb. 6/4 Which caused a draught almost sufficient to blow the fanner quite away.
2.
a. = fan n.1 1b lit. and fig. Also, in later use, an appliance forming part of this.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > machine
winnower1605
fanc1669
wind-fan1761
fanner1788
fly1808
whisk1808
aspirator1883
1788 Meikle Specif. Patent 1645 3 Below the harp a pair of fanners may be placed so as to separate the corn from the chaff.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 99 Fanners for cleaning grain have been long used by the most industrious of the farmers.
1800 Farmers Mag. 1 159 James Meikle who went to Holland in 1710..brought over a winnowing machine or what is commonly called a pair of fanners.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 841/2 How from the fanners of his genius would the cock-chaffers of Cockneys fly like very chaff indeed!
1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 291 The grain, after leaving the mill fanners, is put through hand-fanners preparatory to measuring.
b. U.S. (see quot. 1890).
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1890 Dial. Notes (Boston, U.S.) ii. 58 Fanner, an open basket dishing out from the bottom upwards..Originally it was used to separate the chaff from the wheat.
3. (See quots.)
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fanner..a cooling apparatus.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fanner, a blower or ventilating fan.
4. A kind of hawk so called from the fanning motion of its wings. Also vanner-hawk.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco tinnunculus (kestrel)
stanielc825
kestrel14..
stanchel?a1513
mollec1535
windfucker1599
stonegall1602
fleingall1608
fuckwind1611
scamela1616
furze-kite1635
wind-vanner1668
windhover1674
keelie1808
standgale1840
fanner1875
stand hawk1878
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Fanner, a hawk.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 140 Kestrel..Vanner hawk, Windfanner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014).
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