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fanner|ˈfænə(r)|
[f. fan n. or v. + -er1.]
1. One who fans.
†a. One who winnows grain with a fan. Obs.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 10 Repers, faners and horners. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. xiii. 8. 600 Good corn..falls low at the feet of the Fanner.
b. One who fans (himself or another person) with a fan.
1888Bow-Bells Weekly 18 May, The present Emperor of China when he was a baby had..twenty-five fanners. 1890Daily News 15 Feb. 6/4 Which caused a draught almost sufficient to blow the fanner quite away.
2. = fan n.1 1 b. lit. and fig. Also, in later use, an appliance forming part of this.
1788Specif. Meikle's Patent No. 1645. 3 Below the harp a pair of fanners may be placed so as to separate the corn from the chaff. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 99 Fanners for cleaning grain have been long used by the most industrious of the farmers. 1800Farmers Mag. (Edinb.) I. 159 James Meikle who went to Holland in 1710..brought over a winnowing machine or what is commonly called a pair of fanners. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 841/2 How from the fanners of his genius would the cock-chaffers of Cockneys fly like very chaff indeed! 1853Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIV. ii. 291 The grain, after leaving the mill fanners, is put through hand-fanners preparatory to measuring.
b. U.S. (see quot.).
1890Dialect 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.)
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Fanner, a blower or ventilating fan. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Fanner..a cooling apparatus.
4. A kind of hawk so called from the fanning motion of its wings. Also vanner-hawk.
1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Fanner, a hawk. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 140 Kestrel..Vanner hawk, Windfanner. |