fanning-mill

We meet in the Chinese section with the original of our fanning-mill or winnowing-machine for grain.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

The fanning-mill, porcelain and the _cheng_ may be fairly credited to her.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

Liberalism by constituencies was swept out as clean as a barn floor at fanning-mill time.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

Count the cogs on the wheels of a fanning-mill, washing-machine, apple-parer, or egg-beater, and determine how the direction or rate of the motion is changed thereby.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

But fort after fort fell beneath the new claimant's superior artillery, until La Tour le Borgne himself was met by a counter-force of bigotry, before which his own was as chaff to the fanning-mill.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

The dust of the fanning-mill was on his face and his clothes.

Purple Springs 1921

Many a farmyard, with its binders, rakes, drills, rollers, gasoline engine, fanning-mill, and steam-plow looks as if someone had been giving a machinery shower; but in the kitchen you will find the old washboard and dasher churn, which belonged to the same era as the reaping hook and tallow candle.

In Times Like These 1915

No matter what the occasion, a christening, wedding or funeral, a logging, a threshing, a home-coming or a parting, the finishing of a new house or the buying of a new harness or fanning-mill, any one of these was ample grounds for one of their "talking bees"; so it was easy to set the wheels a-running.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The rye can be fairly well separated from the vetch by use of a fanning-mill or an endless belt of felt so inclined that the round vetch seed will roll down, while the rye sticks to the felt and is carried over.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

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 1897