fanning mill

English

A fanning mill or winnowing machine.

Noun

fanning mill (plural fanning mills)

2. A device using an air blast to winnow grain, using riddles and sieves.

   Synonyms: winnowing machine, winnowing mill

   Hypernym: mill

   Coordinate term: winnower

Translations

device to winnow grain

• Dutch: wanmolen (nl) m
• Polish: wialnia f
• Russian: веялка (ru) f (vejalka)
• Ukrainian: млинок m (mlynok)

Further reading

• fanning mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia