fan-wheel

“Jumbo” windmills were popular, requiring no tower, being merely a large fan-wheel in a crude box.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

But before the courteous Jode could explain that it had to do with evaporation and the dew-point, the Governor's attention wandered, and he was blowing at a little fan-wheel.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

The tongue begins its whirring like the fan-wheel before the clock strikes.

David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883

A few days later, Till’s body surfaced in the Tallahatchie River, a cotton-gin fan-wheel wrapped around him with barbed wire.

Demanding Rights, Courting Controversy 2009

"And the fan-wheel on the nose -- what's that for?

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888