fanner
(ˈfænə(r))
[f. fan n. or v. + -er1.]
1. One who fans. † a. One who winnows grain with a fan. Obs.
| c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 10 Repers, faners and horners. 1654 Trapp 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.
| 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. = fan n.1 1 b. lit. and fig. Also, in later use, an appliance forming part of this.
| 1788 Specif. 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. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Perth 99 Fanners for cleaning grain have been long used by the most industrious of the farmers. 1800 Farmers 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. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 841/2 How from the fanners of his genius would the cock-chaffers of Cockneys fly like very chaff indeed! 1853 Jrnl. 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.).
| 1890 Dialect 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.)
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., Fanner, a blower or ventilating fan. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Fanner..a cooling apparatus. |
4. A kind of hawk so called from the fanning motion of its wings. Also vanner-hawk.
| 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss., Fanner, a hawk. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 140 Kestrel..Vanner hawk, Windfanner. |