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wind-fana

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wind-fana, an ; m.
A cloth for winnowing with, a fan
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  • Windfona

    scabellum

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 119, 71: i. 289, 22.
  • His fone ł windfone (fonnae ł windgefonnae, Lind.) in honda his and clǽnsaþ bereflór his

    cujus uentilabrum in manu ejus et purgauit aream suam

    ,
      Lk. Skt. Rush. 3, 17.
Etymology
[Cf. Ventilabrum . . . a sayle or a wynde clothe. A wyndowe clothe ventilabrum, Prompt. Parv. 529, note 5. See also Cath. Angl. 419, note 3.]
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v.  fana fann.
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  • wind-fana, n.